Nehanda Abiodun

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Nehanda Abiodun
BornJune 29, 1950
New York City, New York, United States
DiedJanuary 30, 2019
Cuba
NationalityNew Afrikan


Nehanda Abiodun was a Statesian Black liberation activist. She studied at Columbia University and worked as an organizer for the West Harlem Community Organization, where the Black Panther Party inspired her. In the late 1970s, she joined Mutulu Shakur's clinic to help drug addicts in the Bronx. She went underground in the 1980s and escaped to socialist Cuba by the 1990s.[1]

References

  1. Abayomi Azikiwe (2022-08-31). "Nehanda Abiodun and the Legacy of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex" Black Agenda Report. Archived from the original on 2022-09-04. Retrieved 2022-10-18.