Before any of that, Tupac was the son of a Black Panther. He was raised with the ideals of the Black Panther Party, a Black nationalist group founded in Oakland, just 30 minutes east of where he ...

The book also delves into a pivotal time in American history as the people in Shakur’s world fought to have their voices heard in the 1970s. The rapper had a front-row seat to the dawn of Black ...

Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, was a leading member of a Black Panther Party chapter in Harlem. In 1969, Afeni was arrested with 20 others in the infamous Panther 21 case. Part of a nationwide ...

Of course, this wasn’t what she’d signed up for when she joined the Black Panther Party in 1968 ... later he was rechristened with a new name: Tupac Amaru Shakur.

It’s possible rapper Tupac Shakur first formulated his distaste for police brutality while still inside the womb. That’s because his mother, Black Panther member Afeni Shakur, was heavily pregnant ...

*Filmmaker Allen Hughes is speaking out about his inspiration behind the new documentary about Tupac and the late rapper’s relationship with his mother, Afeni Shakur. We previously reported that ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Filmmaker Allen Hughes thought participating in any Tupac Shakur project was a farfetched idea especially after surviving a brutal altercation involving him and the rap legend ...

LOS ANGELES – Filmmaker Allen Hughes thought participating in any Tupac Shakur project was a farfetched idea especially after surviving a brutal altercation involving him and the rap legend ...