Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950) is an American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army, sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.
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Shakur was politically active as a teen with the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and later the black separatist movement in the Republic of New Africa. He was the stepfather of slain actor and rap artist Tupac Shakur.
Mutulu Shakur’s Age, Height, Weight, Parents, Wife, Children
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Shakur was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 8 August 1950, 72 years of age as Jeral Wayne Williams. At age seven he moved to Jamaica, Queens, New York City with his mother and younger sister.
Shakur is the father of Mopreme, Nzingha, Chinua, and Ayize Shakur. In 1975, he married Afeni Shakur, the mother of Tupac Shakur. They had a daughter, Sekyiwa. They divorced in 1982.
Nzingha Shakur is the daughter of Mutulu Shakur and Makini Shakur. She and Tupac do not have a blood link, but Nzingha is the stepsister of Tupac.
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