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Tüpac’s Mom Brings His Dream to Life
Afeni Shakur
keeps memory
and truth about
her murdered
son alive
Tupac albums.
"I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a
music producer by choice," Shakur
says plainly, wearing a velour
sweatsuit during an interview in a
New York hotel suite. "W hatever it
is I'm doing I do because my son
was murdered, and he w as not able
to complete his work. So as his
(AP) — Afeni Shakur, the 56-
I think from the time
year-old mother o f the late rapper
always he the reference
Tupac Shakur, does not fit the im
uses about Tupac.
age of a savvy record executive.
She lives on a farm in North
Carolina. She prefers to spend her
time overseeing her garden, attend mother, my whole job and respon
ing to her grandchildren and taking sibility is to see to it that that hap
naps. Yet Shakur is the executive pens for him, and I do that with
producer of the new documentary love.”
"Tupac: Resurrection,” as well as
Yet as Shakur talks about up
founder and CEO of Amaru Enter- coming projects, soon-to-be com
tainment/Amaru Records, which pleted deals and other tasks, it’s
has released several million-selling clear she’s much more than just a
she says.
grieving mother.
“I read every agreement of every
Certainly, that motherly instinct
contract. Anything I put my signa has helped keep Tupac’s name and
ture on, 1 really do read them. And legacy vibrant in the seven years
I find things," says the former Black since Tupac Amaru Shakur died,
Panther, laughing about an inci gunned down on a Las Vegas street
dent where a company tried to get com er at age 25.
paid for a photograph they hadn’t
Tupac was already one of rap's
even taken.
greatest talents — and certainly its
most dynamic, charismatic and con
troversial figure — when he was
it's released, it will
killed. But since his unsolved 1996
material that anybody
slaying. Tupac’s allure and mys
tique have grown exponentially.
-Afeni Shakur
"Tupac: Resurrection" is just the
latest example of Shakur's star
They didn’t get away with it — power after death. The film is being
Shakur, noticing something amiss, released in conjunction with a pic
had the situation investigated and ture book and a soundtrack featur
the proper person credited.
ing new Tupac material.
But savvy? Please, she says.
Although there have been sev
“T hat’s not savvy — that's your eral documentaries produced on
mama. That’show y our mama does
continued y ^ on pane AS
it as opposed to how they do it,”
Afeni Shakur, 56-year-old mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur.
(AP photo)
S trip S ea rch L a w su it S ettled
(AP) — The federal govern cies based on claims that customs rights," the Houston woman’s at
ment has agreed to pay $350,000 inspectors made it a national prac torney, L. Obii Aham-Neze, said.
to a woman who says she was tice to single out minority women
The Justice Department agreed
singled out for a strip search by fo r u n ju stifie d , h u m iliatin g to settle a lawsuit filed by Brent
Miami airport agents because she searches in the 1990s.
without an admission of wrong
is black.
She is relieved that it’s over, and doing two years after she won an
Rhonda Brent’s search and she in her way is also glad to know appeal that found she was sub
do zen s o f o th e rs p ro m p te d that other people can benefit from jected to an unconstitutional strip
changes in federal law and poli what she did to stand up for their search and X-ray exam.
John Allen Muhammad stands for the reading o f a guilty verdict Monday. The former resident of
Tacoma, Wash, was charged in last year's sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area.
Army Veteran Guilty in Sniper Case
the 42-year-old Arm y veteran
The jury deliberated for 6 1/2
should get the death penalty Orlife hours- <fver two days before con
victing Vluhammad of two counts
in prison.
“We reserve the death penalty of capital murder. One accused him
for the worst of the worst,” pros of taking part in multiple murders,
ecutor Richard Conway told the the other - the result of a post-Sept.
(AP) — In a verdict that could jurors. "Folks, he still sits right in 11 terrorism law - alleged the kill
cost him his life, a stone-faced John front of you without a shred of ings were designed to terrorize the
Allen Muhammad was convicted remorse.”
population. Muhammad is the first
Monday of using a high-powered
Muhammad stood impassively person tried under the Virginia law.
rifle, a beat-up car and a teenage as the verdict was read, looking
Muhammad was found guilty of
sidekick to murder people at ran straight ahead with the same enig killing Dean Harold Meyers, a Viet
dom and terrorize the Washington matic look he had throughout the nam veteran who was cut down by
area during last year's sniper at trial. Two jurors held hands, and a single bullet that hit him in the
tacks.
two others wept. Family members head on Oct. 9,2002, as he filled his
The Virginia jury immediately of victims held hands and wiped
continued y ^ on page A5
began hearing evidence on whether away tears.
Faces death for
multiple murders
and terrorism
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