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Shakur's parents, Afeni Shakur—born Alice Faye Williams (January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016), in North Carolina—and his biological father, William "Billy" Garland (born March 14, 1949), had been active Black Panther Party members in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [37]
The two dated for a while and eventually broke up. Garland later found out she was pregnant with Tupac Shakur during the Panther 21 trial. Garland then learned he was the biological father after Tupac was born in 1971. He remained in Tupac's life until 1976; at that time, he lost contact with Afeni completely.
Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950 – July 7, 2023) was an African American activist, and a member of the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.
In 1975, Tupac’s mother married for a second time to Mutulu Shakur, a political activist with the Black Liberation Army and acupuncturist. The same year, Mutulu and Afeni welcomed a daughter ...
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.
Joseph remembers Shakur’s love of performance being obvious from an early age. “You’d go by the house and Tupac and the cousins would be organising their little talent shows,” he recalls.
Shakur followed through with his “talk,” enlisting the Hughes to direct his first two music videos, “Trapped”and “Brenda’s Got a Baby,” the latter of which made the rapper a bona ...
Billy Garland (activist) (born 1949), former Black Panther and biological father of Tupac Shakur Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.