“Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes,” Afeni Shakur told The Associated Press in a 2005 interview. “I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.”
A movie about Tupac Shakur’s life, “All Eyez on Me,” is set to be released in the fall with Danai Gurira playing the rapper. Afeni Shakur served as an executive producer for the film.
Tupac Shakur died in 1996 at age 25, the victim of a drive-by shooting. The killing remains unsolved.
Conspiracies abound about Tupac Shakur’s shooting, but they were all a waste of time to Afeni Shakur.
“We decided to deal with the living. This is justice for me,” she said in 2005. “I need to do what God has put in front of me to do, and it ain’t trying to figure out who killed Tupac.”
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