Trinity Washington University will hold a campus-wide “remembrance” event Tuesday for Assata Shakur, the domestic terrorist who murdered a New Jersey state trooper and later escaped federal prison.
The private school in Washington, D.C., with around 1,900 students, is hosting a “full-day” celebration of the “life, work, and enduring legacy of Assata Shakur.” Faculty members and students will conduct a “community reading” of Shakur’s autobiography, a “critical discussion” of her life, and a “space for collective reflection and cultural appreciation.” The school is Nancy Pelosi’s alma mater, and she recently donated $1.5 million in Apple stock to establish a political center in her name.
It’s the first university-sanctioned event in the country commemorating the life of Shakur, who died on Sept. 25 in Cuba, where she had been living in exile since 1984. Shakur was convicted in 1977 alongside other Black Liberation Army members for the execution-style murder of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster during a traffic stop in 1973.
Shakur, who committed a series of bank robberies and allegedly injured two New York City cops in a hand grenade attack in 1971, has become a darling of the left, which hails her as a political prisoner and revolutionary. Democratic Reps. Yvette Clarke (N.Y.), Summer Lee (Pa.), and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) honored Shakur after her death, as did the NAACP and Democratic Socialists of America, the party of Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.).
Pelosi has not weighed in on Shakur’s death or her House colleagues’ support for the cop killer. She did not respond to requests for comment about Trinity Washington’s event this week.
Pelosi, the school’s most famous alumna, has maintained close personal and financial ties to the school since graduating from the formerly all-girls Catholic school in 1962.
Pelosi, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, donated 5,900 shares of Apple to Trinity Washington in two installments—in December 2021 and May 2023—according to her financial disclosures. The shares are worth around $1.5 million based on Apple’s current stock price, though it is unclear whether Trinity Washington has sold them.
In a letter to Trinity Washington in October 2022, then-Speaker Pelosi announced she would establish the Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi Chair in Global Affairs and Politics at Trinity Washington to advance its “important mission of producing public servants who reflect the beautiful diversity of our great nation.”
Pelosi said she hoped the initiative “will lift up leaders who—enhanced by their Trinity experience—will go on to fight for justice, progress and peace.”
Trinity Washington president Patricia McGuire hailed Pelosi after her “extraordinary gift” to the school as “an icon” for the school’s students. McGuire noted that she frequently visits the university and hosts students for events on Capitol Hill.
“Nancy Pelosi’s devotion to Trinity is also amazing—during her years as Speaker and as a member of Congress, she has come to campus often, and always remembers to invite students to events on the Hill, especially those honoring women’s achievements,” said McGuire.
Pelosi headlined a “Democracy on the Ballot Symposium” at Trinity Washington with McGuire on Oct. 30, 2024, where Pelosi prematurely declared that “we’re about to elect a black woman president of the United States.”
Trinity Washington is hosting the Shakur event in conjunction with the Teagle Foundation, a liberal philanthropy formed by Walter Teagle, the chairman of Standard Oil, the forerunner of ExxonMobil.
Neither Trinity Washington nor the Teagle Foundation responded to requests for comment.
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