Afeni Shakur Davis (born May 16, 1947) is an American music businessperson, philanthropist, former radical political activist and ex-Black Panther. She became famous in the 1990s as the mother of late American rapper and icon Lesane Parish Crooks, better known by his stage name Tupac Shakur.
Shakur was born in Alice Faye Williams in Lumberton, North Carolina, a small city located off of I-95 to Rosa Belle and Walter Williams, Jr. She was named af...
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Afeni Shakur Davis (born May 16, 1947) is an American music businessperson, philanthropist, former radical political activist and ex-Black Panther. She became famous in the 1990s as the mother of late American rapper and icon Lesane Parish Crooks, better known by his stage name Tupac Shakur.
Shakur was born in Alice Faye Williams in Lumberton, North Carolina, a small city located off of I-95 to Rosa Belle and Walter Williams, Jr. She was named after Alice Faye, the actress.
Shakur was a member of the Black Panther party.
In 1971, while pregnant with her son Lesane Parish Crooks, a.k.a Tupac, by Billy Garland (who was a Black Panther), Afeni Shakur was arrested for withholding information that could have led to the arrest of leading members of "Panther 21". While in prison, Afeni Shakur reportedly obtained a court order to have three boiled eggs per day because the food within the jail was unfit for an expecting mother.
She defended herself in court during a bomb conspiracy trial and...
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