Afeni Shakur Davis, the mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur, has died according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office. According to Lt. Dough Pittman she was transported to a nearby hospital where she was, unfortunately, pronounced dead about an hour later at about 10:28 p.m.
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‘Sheriff’s Coroners Office will lead investigation to determine exact cause & manner of Afeni Shakur’s death’.
Shakur, born Alice Faye Williams, changed her name in the late 1960s when she joined the Black Panthers. In 2003 Davis told CBS News that she was not concerned about bringing those responsible for her son’s death to justice.
Tupac Shakur died in 1996 at age 25, the victim of a drive-by shooting.
She was 69, people.com reports.
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Afeni Shakur died in California, after suffering possible cardiac arrest.
She was also an executive producer for the film “All Eyez on Me”, about her son’s life. The case went to trial in 1971, and a pregnant Shakur, lacking support from the national Panther Party, waived legal counsel and successfully defended herself, resulting in her acquittal on a staggering 156 criminal charges.
Afeni was a businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist and Black Panther. The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation was also responsible for the posthumous release of a lot of the rapper’s music. Police never caught the shooter. Interestingly enough, Tupac was born just a month later. Shakur Davis found the group sympathetic to the difficulties of her life as a poor, black woman in New York City: “They took my rage and channeled it”. His killing remains unsolved.
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After Tupac’s death, Davis took over his estate, which reportedly earns $900,00 per year.
