Activist Afeni Shakur Davis, the mother of late rap artist Tupac Shakur, died Monday, officials said. She was 69.
Davis died in a hospital Monday night after deputies responded to a
report of possible cardiac arrest at her Sausalito, California, home at
9:30 p.m., the Marin County Sheriff's Office said. The coroners office
will lead the investigation into the cause of her death.
Davis was born Alice Faye Williams in Lumberton,
North Carolina, according to a biography of her written by actress
Jasmine Guy. She and Tupac's father, Billy Garland, were both active in
the Black Panthers: In 1969, she and 20 other members of the party were
arrested on charges of conspiring to bomb police stations and department
stores in New York City. Though the group was eventually acquitted,
Davis served 11 months in prison, then gave birth to Tupac in 1971.
Source: NBC News
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