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Play Launches Showcasing Tupac’s Mom’s Struggle

The Tupac Amaru Center for the Arts (TASCA) recently launched an art exhibit and stage play showcasing the struggle and arrest of Tupac s mother Afeni Shakur, titled Afeni Shakur: In Her Defense. The ...
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Tupac Shakur had a place in his heart for an unlikely style of music

Tupac Shakur was a fan of a style of music you might not expect during his formative years in the 1980s. This is the music ...
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Assata Shakur’s Family: Her Connection to Tupac Shakur; All On Daughter Kakuya Shakur And Ex-Husband Louis Chesimard

Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army activist who spent decades as a fugitive in Cuba, has died at the age of 78. Shakur, born JoAnne Chesimard, fled the United States in 1979 after escaping from ...
The Root

Kat Graham Will Play Jada Pinkett Smith in the Tupac Shakur Biopic

Kat Graham has booked the role of Jada Pinkett Smith in the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me, Variety reports. Suggested Reading What Cheney Orr’s Striking Metro Photo Tells Us About America Right ...
CNN

I tracked down Tupac’s godmother Assata Shakur, the FBI’s most wanted in Cuba, as a CNN intern. It was surprisingly easy

Shortly after arriving in Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly ...