FX is set to premiere “Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur,” a five-part docuseries that explores the lives of the late Afeni Shakur and her late son Tupac, the rapper, actor, poet and political visionary. The series will also stream on Hulu.
, she joined up. She changed her name to Afeni Shakur after marrying Lumumba Shakur, who founded the Harlem chapter of the Black Panther Party.Seale and Huey Newton had founded the Black Panthers on Oct. 15, 1966, to protect Black communities from police brutality. “People often forget Huey Newton was a law student in 1965,” former Black Panther David Hilliard said in 2006, during. “Newton and Seale patrolled with law books in one hand and a gun in the other.
The party, which at its height had more than 2,000 members in chapters throughout the country, created free school breakfast programs and provided sickle cell anemia testing, legal aid and adult education. But it became a target of the FBI. On June 15, 1969, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover declared that “the Black Panther Party, without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country.
Bail was set at $100,000. The Black Panthers raised the money, and Afeni Shakur was released. But the bail was later remanded, and Shakur, who was then five months pregnant with the baby that would become Tupac, was sent back to jail after two other defendants skipped bail.
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