Afeni Shakur, the mother
of rapper Tupac Shakur, died on Monday May 2nd in Northern California.
She was aged 69.
The Marin County
Sheriff's Department confirmed her death via Twitter, adding that deputies
responded to a possible cardiac arrest situation at her Sausalito home
yesterday and transported her to a hospital where she was pronounced
dead.
Born Alice Faye Williams
in 1947, she was a member of the Black Panthers and served 11 months in prison,
during which time she was pregnant with Tupac. She served as her own defence
attorney and was acquitted of multiple counts. She was released from prison
shortly before her son's birth in June 1971.
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