While not a blood relative Assata Shakur is Tupac’s godmother. She is the sister of Mutulu Shakur, Tupac’s step-father. New Jersey prosecutors identify her as a fugitive who broke out of prison after she was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper. In May 1973, Shakur and two other members of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) Zayd Malik Shakur and Sundiata Acoli, were pulled over on the New Jersey Turnpike by State Trooper Werner Foerster and another highway officer. During a confrontation, a shootout ensued, killing the trooper and Zayd Malik Shakur. She surfaced in Cuba in 1984, where she was granted political asylum. She has lived in Cuba since, despite US government efforts to have her returned. She has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list since 2013 and was the first woman to be added to this list. The Shakurs are one of the most influential family in America. Unfortunately they aren’t wealthy like the Rockefeller’s or thriving with future generations keeping their legacy’s going. The black freedom movement does not have monetary value. I do NOT condone police violence or violence in general, but I was not there. And therefore don’t know what truly happened, but this is the story of Assata Shakur. PEACE+POWER to the Shakur family. She is 76 years old.
enemies too.