What is Kiilu Nyasha?
{{Infobox person | name = Kiilu Nyasha | image = Kiilu Nyasha 01 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1939|5|22}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2018|4|10|1939|5|22}} | education = | alma_mater = Hunter College | occupation = Activist, journalist | years_active = | employer = | organization = Black Panther Party | style = | children = | awards = | footnotes = }} '''Kiilu Nyasha''' (May 22, 1939 &ndash; April 10, 2018) was an American [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]], [[journalist]], and [[Revolutionary|revolutionary activist]]. She was born in 1939, and grew up in [[New York City]] and [[San Francisco]]. ==Career== In San Francisco, she joined the Black Panther Party and worked for a [[lawyer]] who defended the Party.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-03-03|title=Kiilu Nyasha and Yuri Kochiyama: sisters in revolution|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/03/kiilu-nyasha-and-yuri-kuchiyama-sisters-in-revolution/|access-date=2020-10-30|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US}}</ref> She lived in San Francisco's [[Chinatown]] for over 40 years.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party|last=|first=|date=2020-08-04|publisher=Haymarket Books|isbn=978-1-64259-208-5|editor-last=Fujino|editor-first=Diane|location=|pages=|language=en|chapter=Kiilu Taught Me: Letters to My Comrade|editor-last2=Harmachis|editor-first2=Matef|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_3RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT71}}</ref> In her life, she met and worked with other activists like [[Yuri Kochiyama]] and [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Valrey|first=JR|date=2018-04-13|title=The highest salute to the late Black Panther veteran Kiilu Nyasha!|url=https://sfbayview.com/2018/04/the-highest-salute-to-the-late-black-panther-veteran-kiilu-nyasha/|archive-u