These days, Joanne Chesimard is known as Assata Shakur, but she's had dozens of other aliases in a life on the run.
She now lives in Cuba, a guest of dictator Fidel Castro, and carries a $1 million price tag for her capture and return to prison in the U.S.
She's a convicted cop killer who left behind a lifetime of pain for the family of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.
But in at least one corner of City College, Chesimard is a hero, honored and remembered.
Her latest alias enshrines the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community Center at the City University of New York's flagship campus.
It's a punch to the gut that has furious police groups demanding the publicly funded institution strip away the Black Liberation Army militant's name.
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