Assata Shakur Tupacs Grandmother and Civil Rights Icon Dies at 78
Assata Shakur, the grandmother of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur, has passed away at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she had lived since her dramatic escape from a U.S. prison in 1979. Shakur gained prominence not only for her role as a matriarch in the Shakur family, specifically in raising Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur,…