Tupac Shakur: The Life And Times Of An American Icon

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The book I’m doing my book report on is called Tupac Shakur: “The Life and Times of an American Icon,” this book talks all about Tupac’s life from beginning to end. Formally known as Tupac Shakur born on June 16 1971 in New York City, birth name was Lesane parish Crooks his mother Afeni Shakur, renamed him Tupac Amaru Shakur a little under a year after Tupac was born, he was named after the South American revolutionary Tupac Amaru. Afeni Shakur was a member of the Black Panther party she was put in jail for conspiracy charges against the US government and New York landmarks, but was released a month before Tupac was born. Tupac grew up in poverty most of his young life, in 1984 they moved to Baltimore Maryland because his mother couldn’t keep

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