As young students in the mid-’80s ... Shakur, the son of activist and Black Panther Afeni Shakur Davis, grew up poor, Pinkett Smith said – a fact he brought up “all the time.” ...

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 ...