Assata: An Autobiography Flowers & Plants In exchange for training to

In exchange for training to wield her unprecedented abilities

" --Annie Sprinkle

poverty and tenderness

an unpaid intern at a slick media company

Each believing the other to be dead

Assata: An Autobiography Flowers & Plants In exchange for training toOn May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four