Afeni Shakur-Davis, Tupac's mother, was a member of the Black Panther Party. She died in 2016, when she was 69 years old. Annette Brown/Getty Images ...

Afeni Shakur, a dedicated activist and the future mother of Tupac Shakur, played a critical role in the fight for racial justice. In Godfather of Harlem, we see the early seeds of her activism ...

Bio: Afeni Shakur Davis (born Alice Faye Williams on January 10, 1947) was an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and political activist who once acted as her own Criminal Defense attorney ...

Ultimately, it was his mother, the late Afeni Shakur, who made the heartbreaking decision to let her 25-year-old son go, allowing him to “fly” rather than prolong his suffering.

Afeni Shakur’s Black Panther membership and journey were fraught with problems. In 1969, she was arrested alongside 20 other ...

Afeni joined the Black Panther organization in 1964. There, she met a fellow Party member named Lumumba Shakur. They got married and Afeni changed her name from Alice Williams to Afeni Shakur.

Tupac Shakur Spoke of ‘Nothing Else’ but Jada Pinkett Smith, His Sister Says in New Biography The new book was written by Staci Robinson and authorized by the late rapper's mother, Afeni ...

Afeni Shakur at a session of the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention, organized by the Black Panther Party, in Philadelphia, September 1970 ...

Tupac Shakur — who was killed at 25 in 1996 — would have turned 52 this year. His mother, Afeni Shakur, was an activist and a central figure in the Black Panthers. Author and historian Santi ...

Tupac Shakur in the music video for “I Ain’t Mad at Cha,” from his posthumously released album All Eyez on Me, seen in the FX/Hulu documentary series Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac ...

Political activist and Black Panther member Afeni Shakur onstage at a rally in support of the Panther 21 in New York, New York on April 4, 1970. The Panther 21 were Black Panther members arrested ...