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May 3, 2016 · Activist Afeni Shakur Davis, the mother of late rap artist Tupac Shakur, died Monday, officials said. She was 69. Afeni Shakur at the premiere of "Tupac Resurrection" in Hollywood, California in ...
Apr 13, 2023 · Following her son's death, Afeni Shakur founded the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation to bring the arts to young people. She was the executor of the rapper's estate and co-produced the Broadway ...
Afeni Shakur was born Alice Faye Williams on January 10, 1947, in Lumberton, North Carolina, a prominent station in the timber industry along the Lumber River. The daughter of Rosa Belle, a homemaker, and Walter Williams, Jr., a trucker, Shakur and her sister, Gloria Jean, had a troubled childhood. "My momma left my dad because he was kickin ...
Apr 28, 2023 · April 28, 2023. Afeni Shakur and her son, Tupac Shakur, lived nearly 35,000 days combined — and very few of those days seemed to have brought either one of them real peace. In Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur, FX’s sprawling new five-part docuseries directed by Allen Hughes, we get a look at the trials and triumphs of the ...
May 4, 2016 · Text Kemi Alemoru. Afeni Shakur, the mother of hip hop legend Tupac Shakur, died at the age of 69 on May 2. Long before Kanye West ’s mother-loving track “ Hey Mamma”, Tupac proclaimed his love for his own mother by dedicating 'Dear Mama' to her in 1995. It became a favourite amongst his fans and won him critical acclaim.
Feb 17, 2022 · The story of Afeni Shakur is on its way to the big screen. Afeni, who died of cardiac arrest in 2016, was an influential member of the Black Panther Party and the mother of rap icon Tupac Shakur .
Afeni Shakur (born Alice Faye Williams; [1] January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016) was an American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist and Black Panther. She was the mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur. Shakur was in Federal Court on July 20, 2007, to file an injunction to prevent Death Row Records from selling any unreleased ...
