{"id":2133011,"date":"2025-11-03T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2133011"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:46:17","slug":"assata-shakur-documentary-and-scripted-project-in-the-works-from-giselle-and-stephen-bailey-angela-davis-to-executive-produce-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/assata-shakur-documentary-and-scripted-project-in-the-works-from-giselle-and-stephen-bailey-angela-davis-to-executive-produce-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Assata Shakur Documentary and Scripted Project in the Works From Giselle and Stephen Bailey; Angela Davis to Executive Produce (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Late political activist Assata Shakur<\/a> is set to be the subject of a documentary feature and a scripted project by filmmakers Giselle and Stephen Bailey<\/a> (HBO\u2019s \u201cSeen & Heard: The History of Black Television<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n

Shakur<\/a>, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army and had been a fugitive sought by the U.S. since escaping prison in 1979. Shakur died on Sept. 25 in Havana, Cuba, where she had received political asylum. She was 78 years old. The forthcoming projects are authorized by Shakur\u2019s daughter, Kakuya Shakur, and produced and co-directed by the sister-brother filmmaking team through their banner, Indigo Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssata\u2019s story is important to all Americans<\/a> as it reveals the powers that divide us and our capacity to heal,\u201d co-directors Giselle and Stephen Bailey said in a statement announcing the projects.<\/p>\n

Civil rights lawyer Lennox Hinds<\/a>, who served as counsel to Shakur, granted the filmmakers exclusive access,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late political activist Assata Shakur is set to be the subject of a documentary feature and a scripted project by filmmakers Giselle and Stephen Bailey (HBO\u2019s \u201cSeen & Heard: The History of Black Television\u201d). Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army and had been a fugitive sought by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2133012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2133011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Assata-Shakur-Documentary-and-Scripted-Project-in-the-Works-From.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133013,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133011\/revisions\/2133013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2133012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}