Editing Tupac Shakur (section)

===Panther heritage===
Shakur's parents, Afeni Shakur—born Alice Faye Williams (January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016), in North Carolina—and his biological father, William "Billy" Garland (born March 14, 1949), had been active [[Black Panther Party]] members in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rare Interview With Tupac's Biological Father |url=http://mycolumbuspower.com/2916523/rare-interview-with-tupacs-biological-father-video/ |date=December 30, 2013 |publisher=Power 107.5 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807221354/http://mycolumbuspower.com/2916523/rare-interview-with-tupacs-biological-father-video/ |archive-date=August 7, 2016}}</ref> A month before Shakur's birth, his mother was tried in New York City as part of the [[Panther 21]] criminal trial. She was acquitted of over 150 charges.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=Cathy|title=The Killing of Tupac Shakur|title-link=The Killing of Tupac Shakur|publisher=Huntington Press|year=2002|isbn=978-0929712208|location=Las Vegas, Nevada}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Afeni Shakur|url=http://www.2paclegacy.com/images/assets/bio_afeni_shakur/afeni_shakur_biography.pdf |publisher=2Pac Legacy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409074113/http://www.2paclegacy.com/images/assets/bio_afeni_shakur/afeni_shakur_biography.pdf |archive-date=April 9, 2008 |access-date=April 23, 2008}}</ref>

Other family members who were involved in the [[Black Panther Party|Black Panthers]]' [[Black Liberation Army]] were convicted of serious crimes and imprisoned, including Shakur's stepfather, [[Mutulu Shakur]], who spent four years as one of the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1980s|FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]]. Mutulu Shakur was apprehended in 1986 and subsequently convicted for a 1981 [[Brinks robbery (1981)|robbery of a Brinks armored truck]], during which police officers and a guard were killed.<ref name="labyrinth">{{Cite book|first=Randall|last=Sullivan|title=LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal |publisher=[[Grove Press]] |location=New York City |date=January 3, 2003 |isbn=0-8021-3971-X}}</ref>

Shakur's [[Godparent|godfather]], [[Geronimo Pratt|Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt]], a high-ranking Black Panther, was wrongly convicted of murdering a schoolteacher during a 1968 robbery. After he spent 27 years in prison, his conviction was overturned due to the prosecution's having concealed evidence that proved his innocence.<ref>{{cite web|title=Geronimo Pratt: Black Panther leader who spent 27 years in jail for a crime he did not commit|website=The Independent|date=October 23, 2011|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/geronimo-pratt-black-panther-leader-who-spent-27-years-in-jail-for-a-crime-he-did-not-commit-2297384.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Elmer G. Pratt, Jailed Panther Leader, Dies at 63 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04 |access-date=January 16, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=June 3, 2011}}</ref>

Shakur's godmother, [[Assata Shakur]], is a former member of the [[Black Liberation Army]] who was convicted in 1977 of the [[first-degree murder]] of a [[New Jersey State Police|New Jersey State Trooper]]. Since 2013, she has been in the [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists]] list after she escaped [[Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women|prison]] in 1979.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Aging Fugitive Joanne Chesimard Is First Woman on Most Wanted Terrorists List |language=English |date=May 2, 2013 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/joanne-chesimard-woman-fbi-wanted-terrorists-list/story?id=19092683 |access-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118052014/https://abcnews.go.com/US/joanne-chesimard-woman-fbi-wanted-terrorists-list/story?id=19092683 |archive-date=January 18, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Shakur |first=Assata |date=1987 |title=An Autobiography of Assata Shakur |others=Lennox S. Hinds (foreword) |publisher=Lawrence Hill Books |isbn=0-88208-221-3}}</ref>