Afeni Shakur passed away at 69 years old on May 2, 2016. At the time, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office reported that she had suffered possible cardiac arrest.

Suge Knight, former Death Row Records CEO, has alleged in a new interview from prison over a fatal hit-and-run that he witnessed rapper Tupac Shakur 's mother, Afeni Shakur, help her son die the ...

File – Rapper Tupac Shakur arrives at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1996. On September 7, 1996, 2Pac was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of ...

File – Rapper Tupac Shakur arrives at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1996. On September 7, 1996, 2Pac was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of ...

Suge Knight Recalls Afeni Shakur’s Final Message to Doctors Treating 2Pac After 1996 Shooting: ‘Let Him Go’ After emergency surgeries and a lung removal, the rapper was pronounced dead on ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Dec. 9 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Giovanni, 81, held many titles ...

Afeni Shakur-Davis, Tupac's mother, was a member of the Black Panther Party. She died in 2016, when she was 69 years old. Annette Brown/Getty Images ...

Shakur’s family has also honored his legacy in a variety of ways in the years since his death. His mother, Afeni, launched the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation in 1997, initially as a way to bring ...

Dean Van Nguyen. Doubleday, $32 (464p) ISBN 978-0-385-55002-4 Rapper Tupac Shakur transmitted Black Panther militance to a new generation, according to this scattershot biography.