Shakur, the son of activist and Black Panther Afeni Shakur Davis ... Still, their bond was so intense that Pinkett Smith inspired poems by Shakur that were posthumously published in The Rose ...

Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur Davis (1847-2016) was a Harlem-based Black Panther leader who famously defended herself in a sensational 1970 court case proving she was an 'activist' not a 'terrorist ...