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Aug 11, 2023 · Fourth in a series of Retropolis stories looking back at moments in hip-hop history during the week of the music genre’s 50th anniversary. It was August 1989, and an 18-year-old Tupac Shakur ...
The iconic rap artist the world knows as Tupac Shakur (and by his stage name 2Pac, and often, affectionately, just Pac) was born, as Afeni prophesied, into the chaos of a collapsing revolutionary ...
Jun 29, 1997 · Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s mother, was a member of the Black Panther Party. Early in 1971, while she was pregnant with Tupac, she was on trial for conspiring to blow up several New York department ...
- Enemies of the state. 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.
- Crackdown. Few forces were as disruptive to Tupac’s generation as the illicit drug trade. When he was born, heroin use was concentrated in the New York City metro area.
- Hip-hop meets politics. Even though black and white drug use rates were similar during this period, poor black communities ended up being the battlegrounds – and killing fields – for the war on drugs.
- The trappings of success. As his popularity grew, Tupac personally and professionally struggled over his appeal to the mainstream, while battling the allure of conspicuous consumption, excess, and sexism.
Sep 10, 2012 · A member of the Jersey City branch of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s, Bill Garland met Afeni Shakur at a strategy officer’s meeting in New York City in 1969.
May 23, 2023 · Tupac Shakur, an exalted figure in hip-hop history, killed in 1996 and since then venerated as the G.O.A.T., as a martyr in a regional war for rap dominance and as a revolutionary spirit devoured by the music industry. In Santi Elijah Holley ’s magnificent new book, “ An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created,” we see ...
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Oct 31, 1996 · Garland and Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s mother, were both members of the Black Panther Party in 1970 when they met; Garland lived in Jersey City, Afeni in New York.
