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Mutulu Shakur
1950–2023
United States
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Biography
Dr. Mutulu Shakur Sr. (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950 – July 7, 2023) was an American activist and a member of the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to sixty years in prison for his alleged involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.
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