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Alice Faye Williams, (a.k.a. Afeni Shakur) was born on January 10th, 1954 in Lumberton, North Carolina.
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Afeni and her sister, Gloria Jean, had moved to New York City, Shakur had later attended The Bronx High School Of Science, her drug addiction had slowly developed at the age of Fifteen.
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Afeni Joins the Black Panther Liberation Movement in 1964, after a run in with a Malcolm X associate. She had begun writing articles for The Panther newsletter and contributed in a campaign of misleading the FBI into believing that The Black Panther Movement was dying out.
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Twenty Panthers, including Afeni, were arrested April 2nd, 1969, on several accounts of bombing police stations, stores, as well as other New York City areas.
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Afeni had been released from prison, and was pregnant with Tupac at the time with New Jersey truck driver & Black Panther party member William Garland. Her bail had been short-lived before being returned to jail in essence of awaiting trial.
- Garland is also the Biological Father of Tupac
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In the famous trial, known as the Panther 21 trial, Shakur had gone to trial and had defended herself, though facing repeated objection from co-defendants, she had won her freedom in May.
She had given birth to her Son, Tupac Amaru, on June 16th. -
Afeni started working in the Bronx as a paralegal. She worked under Richard Fischbein and married Mutulu Shakur, he was the stepfather of Tupac and the father of Tupac's sister and Afeni's daughter, Sekyiwa.
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In the early 1980's, Afeni started using crack cocaine, mostly as a coping mechanism, dealing with the hardships of being impoverished and on welfare
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Afeni and her two children, Tupac and Sekyiwa, moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where Tupac had studied Dance and Music while attending the Baltimore School of the Performing Arts.
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In an effort to quit her ongoing drug addiction, Afeni had moved with her family to Marin County, California.
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In the early 1990's, Afeni returned to New York City and had attended Narcotics Anonymous meetings in addition to being in Rehab with the efforts of getting sober and quitting her addiction, along with hopes of being able to reunite with Tupac.
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After attending many meetings in rehab, Afeni was sober, and reunited with Tupac later that same year.
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Tupac was shot and killed in a drive by shooting on September 7th, 1996. Around the time of his death, Afeni had founded Amaru Entertainment, a record label company that had kept Tupac's legacy - his music alive. After Tupac's death, Afeni had established the foundation that she had named after her son, The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, in which would serve as a sense of emanicipation of education and self expression through the arts.
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Afeni had passed away after suffering with cardiac arrest on Monday, May 2nd, 2016.
Afeni died at the age of 69.
