Far-left “Squad” member Rep. Jamal Bowman (D.N.Y.), a convicted radical black activist, was involved in a special project at a New York City middle school where he served as principal before being elected to Congress. According to one report, a YouTube video reviewed by Fox News Digital glorified the killer.
a 2014 video Centered around Cornerstone Academy for Social Action Middle School (CASA)’s then-current “Wall of Action” project, including Bowman’s 1973 New Jersey murder conviction of Assata Shakur. The walls feature paintings celebrating various historical black and Latino figures. state police officer. Bowman called the people depicted on the wall “tremendous, tremendous numbers.”
Shakur, whose real name was Joanne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a black supremacist group, and was serving a life sentence for the shooting death of a police officer, before escaping from prison in 1979 with the help of fellow black radical activist Mutulu Shakur. . Bowman praised in the video. She fled to Cuba, where she remains wanted as a domestic terrorist.
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Radical Black Liberation Activist and Convicted Murderer Assata Shakur and Congressman Jamal Bowman (D.Y.) (Getty Images)
“Each member of the Wall of Honor is committed to helping move our society from bigotry and oppression to a world of freedom, justice, and equality,” said Bowman, the school’s founder and principal. He has played an important role.” In the video, first reported by the Huffington Post, Shakur names a variety of less controversial figures, including former President Barack Obama and Booker T. Washington.
Mutulu Shakur was later convicted of armed robbery and aiding Assata Shakur’s escape from prison. After he died last year, released from prison about 8 months ago due to his declining health.
In addition to the Shakur family, who are not related, the wall also includes members of the Democratic Party of Georgia, known as anti-Semites and promoters of conspiracy theories such as that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were caused by Jews. Former state Rep. Cynthia McKinney was also included.
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João Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, holds a manuscript of his autobiography in the backdrop of Old Havana, Cuba, on October 7, 1987. (Ogier Muhammad/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
The video also features footage of a visit to CASA by Public Enemy hip-hop artist Chuck D, whom Bowman called “a legendary hip-hop artist and one of the pillars of the hip-hop movement and hip-hop culture.” It was included.For Chuck D long history For praising notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan on his X (formerly Twitter) account. In 2020, he called conservatives who point out his ties to Farrakhan “cockroaches.”
in Another video from 2013 Also mentioned in the Huffington Post report, Bowman is seen discussing a career development event being held at the school, but on the table in front of him is a copy of Assata’s 1988 book, Assata: There is an autobiography.
FOX News Digital has reached out to Bowman’s office for comment.
According to HuffPost, a spokesperson for Bowman told the outlet, “Many leaders of the black liberation movement, from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm It is correct that he has a strong background.”
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He added: “Educating students about key figures in Black American history is completely baseless and a rhetorical tool of the far right, serving to promote hateful and divisive rhetoric and actions.”
Fox News’ Stephen Sorace and Andrew Murray contributed to this report.
