The women behind Tupac: Afeni and Sekyiwa's story From the Black Panther movement to Tupac’s death, the Shakur family endured political persecution, poverty, addiction and profound loss. Gender 2 hours ago

One Saturday on the famous 125th Street in Harlem, Afeni attended a Black Panther Party rally and listened to founder Bobby Seale speak articulately and passionately about the rights of black people.

Afeni subsequently lost her apartment and, after enduring homelessness on the streets of New York, relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1984 with 13-year-old Tupac and seven-year-old Sekyiwa.

As doctors often did to black patients, he removed one of her fallopian tubes, leaving everything else, including her womb, intact, without informing Sandra.