Cheri Laverne Dalton (29 June 1950-30 January 2019), also known as Nehanda Isoke Abiodun, was an African-American hip hop activist and revolutionary who, while affiliated with the Black Panther Party, took part in an armored truck robbery in 1981.
Biography[]
Cheri Laverne Dalton was born in Harlem, New York City, New York in 1950, and she became a tenant organizer in Manhattan at the age of ten. She worked as a methadone critic in Harlem and worked with the National Black Human Rights Coalition to help recovering drug addicts, and she also joined the Black Panther Party with the nom de guerre of "Nehanda Isoke Abiodun". Abiodun played a role in Assata Shakur's 1979 escape from prison, and she also took part in a string of robberies, such as the 1981 Brink's armored car robbery. She settled in Havana, Cuba in 1990 and became a revolutionary rap music activist.