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Afeni Shakur. Afeni Shakur Davis (born Alice Faye Williams; January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016) was an American political activist and member of the Black Panther Party. [ 1] Shakur was the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur and the executor of his estate. She founded the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation and also served as the CEO of Amaru Entertainment ...
Dear Mama (TV series) Dear Mama. (TV series) Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur is an American television documentary miniseries directed by Allen Hughes, about Tupac Shakur and his mother Afeni Shakur. [1] [2] It premiered on FX on April 21, 2023. [3] [4] It received critical acclaim.
Dear Mama. " Dear Mama " is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his third studio album, Me Against the World (1995). It was released on February 21, 1995, as the lead single from the album. The song is a tribute to his mother, Afeni Shakur. In the song, Shakur details his childhood poverty and his mother's addiction to crack cocaine, but argues ...
FXThere may be no hip-hop artist who’s been mythologized more than Tupac Shakur—this is an icon, after all, who had so many posthumous albums released following his 1996 death (seven, in fact ...
Shakur had seen the Hugheses’s short films, and told Allen in the restroom that he wanted to hire them to direct his first video. “I thought he was just talking,” Allen admits. “I thought ...
In 1994, the year before his death, Shakur wrote one of his most powerful and emotionally resonant songs as a tribute to his mother. “Dear Mama”, which doesn’t flinch from discussing Afeni ...
Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947), [a] also known as Joanne Chesimard, is an American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped ...
Tupac Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur Davis, died on Monday night at age 69, nearly 20 years after the death of her son.