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Assata Shakur, the grandmother of hip hop legend Tupac Shakur, has passed away.

Shakur died in Cuba, where she’s lived since escaping from a US prison in 1979.

Though best known these days for raising Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, Assata first gained fame for her involvement in the struggle for civil rights.

She was 78 years old.

Assata Shakur’s dramatic life comes to an end in Cuba

A former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, Shakur became a prominent figure in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Raised between New York and North Carolina, she was active in movements that sought racial justice, community empowerment, and opposition to systemic racism and police brutality.

Her life took a dramatic turn in 1973, when a car

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