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	Afeni Shakur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afeni Shakur (Government name Alice Fay Walker) (born January 22, 1947, in Lumberton, North Carolina) is the mother of the famous American rapper Tupac Shakur and was an important member of the Black Panther Party.
		While pregnant with her son, Afeni Shakur was incarcerated for withholding information that could have led to the arrest of leading members of "Panther 21".
		Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary, Afeni's memoirs, by Jasmine Guy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afeni_Shakur (314 words)

	Tupac Shakur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shakur became the target of various lawsuits and experienced legal troubles—most notably, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993 (although he vigorously denied the claims).
		Shakur's godfather, Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, was convicted of murdering a schoolteacher during a 1968 robbery.
		Shakur's close childhood friend and member of the Outlawz, Yafeu "Yaki Kadafi" Fula, was in the convoy when the shooting happened and indicated to police that he might be able to identify the assailants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupac_Shakur (5517 words)

	Tupac Amaru Shakur Center For The Arts
		Afeni Shakur, whose son Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996, helped dedicate the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts on Memorial Drive near Hambrick Road Aug, 18.
		Shakur's mother, who was a member of the 1960,s radical political group of the Black Panthers, has lived in the area of the center for a decade.
		Afeni Shakur thanked the audience for their support and asked them to remember victims of violence, who will be remembered along with Tupac in a memorial garden on the site.
	www.thetalkingdrum.com /pac.html (584 words)

	2Pac2K.de - 2Pac's Mother Afeni Shakur
		Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in 1971 to Afeni Shakur, a Black Panther who carried the rapper-to-be in her womb while she was in jail, accused in a bomb plot.
		Exhausted from the trialand angry at the romantic betrayal by Afeni, Lumumba left his wife and her newborn son; but Afeni quickly moved in with Lumumba's adopted brother, Mutulu, who would become Tupac's stepfather and spiritual counselor for the rest of the younger man's life.
		Taking the legend of the Shakurs to new heights, Assata escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba, where she is living now under a grant of asylum from the government of Fidel Castro.
	www.2pac2k.de /mother.html (1088 words)

	Afeni Shakur Speaks on the Reolution of Hip Hop Beefs - www.ezboard.com
		Afeni Shakur is no stranger to the world of hip-hop violence and is elated that the riff between T.I. and Flip was reportedly settled behind closed doors in a peaceful sit-down session.
		Afeni Shakur is grateful for the quiet end to the latest in what has been a string of rap-related violence.
		Afeni Shakur has just launched her "Keep Kids Alive" campaign, designed to stop the unnecessary deaths that take the lives of one youth every 18 minutes in the United States, through car accidents, suicides and homicides.
	p076.ezboard.com /fpoliticalpalacefrm56.showMessage?topicID=410.topic (491 words)

	www.TupacTheLegend.com
		Afeni Shakur: First of all, the difference in people's temperment and my temperment, our temperment is such that is just like you were asking me about a song 'Wade in the Water, God Gonna Trouble the Waters'.
		Afeni Shakur: Let me say that my son was killed on 9/13/96 and Nov. 10th, Yafa Ufala, one of the Outlaws and a member of my son's group, and a member of our family was murdered...
		Afeni Shakur: The misconceptions are that Tupac was a rapper, the Tupac wasn't political and that Tupac was a gangster.
	www.angelfire.com /wv2/jameswv/afeni-interview.html (3453 words)

	Afeni Shakur Believes 2Pac's Killer Is Dead
		Although Afeni Shakur wasn't specific, she may have been referring to Orlando Anderson, the man that Tupac Shakur and his entourage beat up several hours before Shakur was shot.
		Afeni Shakur added that she buried Tupac's ashes on her farm in Lumberton, North Carolina, saying, "Yesterday, which was June 16, 2003, we put Tupac's ashes in the ground after seven years...
		In the interview, Afeni Shakur shared some intimate details of her son's last hours, "Tupac was never conscious from the time I saw him.
	www.streetgangs.com /topics/tupac/082603oa.html (382 words)

	Amazon.de: Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary: Bücher: Jasmine Guy,Afeni Shakur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Afeni Shakur (nee Alice Faye), the mother of deceased hip-hop star Tupac Shakur, emerges as a significant cultural emblem in her own right in this absorbing oral history.
		Long before Shakur was famous for being the mother of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, she was a high-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and one of the "New York 21" charged by the state with subversive activities.
		Shakur is brutally honest about her personal shortcomings, the internal politics of the Black Panthers that contributed to their unraveling, her long recovery, and the renewed strength and conviction she brings to managing the entertainment legacy left by her son.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743470532 (577 words)

	Amaru "Tupac 2Pac" Shakur
		Later in November, Shakur's was accused of sexual assult charges from a woman that he met in a club and had her preform oral sex on him on the dance floor.
		Shakur was hit by four bullets September 7 as he rode near the Las Vegas Strip in a car driven by the head of Death Row Records, Marion "Suge" Knight, who was slightly wounded.
		Shakur had been standing up through the open sun roof of a 1996 BMW 750 sedan that was eastbound on Flamingo Road.
	rap-universe.8m.com /2Pac.html (1821 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Shakur's mother rips Metro Police
		Afeni Shakur, mother of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, has publicly chastised Metro Police for not finding her son's killer and not keeping her informed about the case.
		Shakur, one of rap's most popular and notorious singers and a successful film star, was gunned down Sept. 7 on East Flamingo Road near the Strip as he sat at a stoplight in a car driven by record label owner Marion "Suge" Knight.
		Fischbein said Afeni Shakur believes that if she were a prominent Las Vegan, police would have kept her informed on the progress of the investigation.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/special/1997/feb/05/505560719.html (1011 words)

	Woman on a Mission: Afeni Shakur to speak at IU Northwest
		Afeni Shakur, former revolutionary and activist in the Black Panther movement, might first be known to the younger crowd as the mother of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.
		Afeni Shakur will talk about her life and her new biography on Thurs., Feb. 23 from 7-10 pm at Tamarack Hall Theatre, IU Northwest, Gary, Ind. Shakur has been described as an outspoken and eloquent advocate for today’s youth, who brings a message of hope to those battling against the odds.
		Afeni’s life story is now the subject of a biography written by actress Jasmine Guy, entitled, Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary.
	www.iun.edu /~newsnw/pg/2006/060202_shakur.shtml (355 words)

	Afeni Shakur
		Tupac Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur activist, Black Panther, poet, actress, NY 21 political prisoner, addicted to freedom and liberation The Black Panther Party, life addicted to the assessment of Amerikkka's idea of her: helpless Black woman without a clue to what life is/was about.
		Afeni now feels it was cruel and insensitive, but she didn't understand that then.
		But she accepted Afeni into her home, All I did was make her life miserable and i was with her husband, which we were sharing.
	www.thetalkingdrum.com /afeni.html (885 words)

	USATODAY.com - Tupac Shakur's mother opens arts center for at-risk youth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		ATLANTA (AP) — Afeni Shakur was in a cocaine haze in 1990 when she heard that her son's rap career was taking off.
		Afeni kicked her habit, and by the time Tupac was killed in 1996 at the height of his fame, they had rekindled their relationship.
		Now Afeni's life is consumed with keeping Tupac's legacy alive — and her latest effort is the June 11 grand opening of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-05-25-tupac_x.htm?csp=34 (689 words)

	The Anniston Star - ‘That’s not savvy—that’s your mama: Afeni Shakur fierce guardian of son’s artistic legacy
		Afeni Shakur, the 56-year-old mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, does not fit the image of a savvy record executive.
		Yet Shakur is the executive producer of the new documentary Tupac: Resurrection, as well as founder and CEO of Amaru Entertainment/Amaru Records, which has released several million-selling Tupac albums.
		Shakur is currently talking with MTV to produce a biopic of Shakur’s younger years, and is looking to produce a Broadway play about his life using his music.
	www.dailyhome.com /entertainment/2003/as-movies-1113-0-3k12p1456.htm (736 words)

	Afeni Shakur Speaks Out on Recent Rap Feud Resolution
		Shakur, mother of rap's greatest icon, Tupac Amaru Shakur, is no stranger to the world of hip-hop violence and is elated that the riff between T.I. and Flip was reportedly settled behind closed doors in a peaceful sit-down session.
		Shakur is grateful for the quiet end to the latest in what has been a string of rap-related violence.
		Shakur has just launched her "Keep Kids Alive" campaign, designed to stop the unnecessary deaths that take the lives of one youth every 18 minutes in the United States, through car accidents, suicides and homicides.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-22-2005/0003445492&EDATE= (499 words)

	Tupac Shakur / 2pac at Abstracts.net - pics news pictures pix
		Shakur's post-celebrity run-ins with the law were almost as frequent as when he was growing up.
		His mother, Afeni, sent a statement thanking the museum for the honor, adding that she was still unable to visit Las Vegas, where the rap star was slain in September 1996.
		Shakur had a brilliant mind whose contradictory experiences - growing up in poverty and simultaneously studying dance, theater, literature and art at grant schools in Harlem and Baltimore - made him proud to be both refined and a thug." Read more.
	abstracts.net /tupac-shakur (3621 words)

	Rolling Stone : Tupac Shakur 1971-1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Afeni Shakur's bail was revoked in early 1971, and she found herself in the Women's House of Detention in New York's Greenwich Village, pregnant with Tupac.
		Afeni attempted to channel the creative energy of Tupac -- who was often teased by family members and neighborhood boys for being "pretty" -- by enrolling him in a Harlem theater group when he was 12.
		To me, Shakur was the most important solo artist in the history of rap, not because he was the most talented (he wasn't), but because he, more than any other rapper, personified and articulated what it was to be a young fl man in America.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5938593/tupac_shakur_19711996 (4719 words)

	Princeton - News - Afeni Shakur, Activist and Youth advocate, is Keynote Speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Afeni Shakur is a former revolutionary, activist, Black Panther, and mother of the late rap superstar 2Pac.
		As founder and CEO of Amaru Records and creator of the Shakur Family Foundation, she is now the keeper of her son's vision and is working to make his dreams a reality.
		Through her work with the Shakur Family Foundation, she has made strides to increase literacy and spark community development in the inner city.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/news/99/q4/1108-shakur.htm (204 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Afeni Shakur Takes Historic Trip to South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Afeni was a section leader in the Black Panther Party and her involvement as a leader influenced Tupac immensely.
		Afeni Shakur will be honored for her contribution as an activist for the rights of fl people and the oppressed as well as for her unselfish gesture in bringing her son to Africa.
		The return of Tupac Amaru Shakur's remains to the birthplace of his ancestors will be celebrated in a traditional African ceremony with a praise singer on the 10th anniversary of his death, September 13, 2006.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=151086&tsource=3 (473 words)

	Tupac Shakur Biography
		Afeni Shakur was pregnant with Tupac while in jail, and on trial as one of the infamous of New York 21, this was a time where all of the members of the party were accused of conspiracy to bomb public places.
		Afeni Shakur was eventually aquitted of all charges.
		Tupac Shakur was pronounced dead at 4.03 pm, his body was later cremated.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/playa719/playaland/page3a.html (1832 words)

	Tupac Shakur - Afeni
		The tale of Tupac Shakur, who lived so fast and died so young, is at once more tender and more tragic than that of the woman-hating thug we saw in stories about him.
		But one thing she did acknowledge: that the father was not Afeni's husband, Lumumba Shakur, who was the lead defendant in the Panther 21 case.
		Exhausted from the trial and angry at the romantic betrayal by Afeni, Lumumba left his wife and her newborn son; but Afeni quickly moved in with Lumumba's adopted brother, Mutulu, who would become Tupac's stepfather and spiritual counsellor for the rest of the younger man's life.
	www.mytupacsite.com /afeni.shtml (1233 words)

	Afeni Shakur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Afeni Shakur was born as Alice Faye Williams, in North Carolina.
		When Afeni's bail was revoked in earl 1971, she found herself at the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village, whilst pregnant with Tupac.
		In May 1971, Afeni and thirteen of her collegues were acquitted of all charges.
	sites.inka.de /madlex/afeni.htm (688 words)

	Ancestry of Tupac Shakur
		The name was then taken by several close of friends of Lumumba Shakur, including his wife Afeni (who had been given her first name Afeni by a Yoruba priestess), Afeni's later husband Mutulu, Lumumba's brother Zayd Malik Shakur (born James F. Coston) and Zayd's close friend Assata Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah (Byron) Chesimard).
		Zayd Shakur, Assata Shakur, and Sundiata Accoli (born Clark Edward Squire, another of the New York 21) were involved in a shootout with state troopers in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1973 that left Zayd and an officer Werner Foerster dead.
		Lumumba Shakur and Afeni Shakur were both defendants in the "New York 21" trial of New York based Panthers on a variety of charges, of which all were acquitted.
	www.wargs.com /other/shakur.html (581 words)

	Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jasmine formed a bond with Pac’s "Dear Mama," Afeni Shakur, and over the next 10 years, culled Afeni’s story, building a sisterhood in the process.
		It is a first book for both of them, and while there is much more to be said about both, there is enough there to hopefully jumpstart Generation X to read more and learn about the names and people mentioned within.
		It speaks of the work Afeni did, the steps that need to be taken to free oneself from the drug of choice.
	www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/article_1304.shtml (533 words)

	Keep It REAL: Afeni Shakur vs. Death Row
		The estate of Tupac Shakur, administered by his mother, Afeni Shakur, filed suit against Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records and Shakur's so-called mentor and manager, Death Row Records, and David Kenner, Shakur's attorney.
		Plaintiff, Afeni Shakur ("Afeni"), is a resident of the State of Georgia and is the mother of Tupac Shakur ("Tupac").
		Pursuant to Letters of Administration of the Superior Court dated October 23, 1996, Afeni was appointed co-administrator of the Estate of Tupac (the "Estate").
	members.tripod.com /~Thunder_1st/Keep_It_REAL/Complaint.htm (6773 words)

	Afeni Shakur
		Long before Tupac Shakur was even conceived, his mom, Alice Faye Williams, dropped out of high school and moved from North Carolina to New York City where she soon joined the Black Panther Party.
		As a member of that self-styled revolutionary group, she changed her name to Afeni Shakur, and became famous as one of the New York 21, a cadre of Panther leaders jailed by J. Edgar Hoover on fabricated charges of fomenting race war.
		Defending herself, Afeni, like the rest of her co-defendants, was ultimately acquitted of all 156 of the trump-up counts against her.
	www.beansouptimes.com /Afeni_Shakur1.htm (1028 words)

	MTV News - Tupac's Mom Renovates Foundation Center, Says Next LP Will Be The Last
		Though Afeni has been remembering her son with annual concerts around his June 16 birthday, she and her partners in the foundation felt that more could be done.
		Afeni, a former Black Panther and a recovered drug addict, referenced her own tumultuous past when describing the foundation's main goal.
		Afeni is also working on an as-of-yet-untitled film detailing Tupac's early life, as well as a traveling Broadway play.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1500355/20050418/shakur_afeni.jhtml?headlines=true (896 words)

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