Date 06/07/2016 - News People
Tupac Shakur's mother started the foundation in his memory. In 1997, the year after her son was fatally shot in Las Vegas, Afeni Shakur launched the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, which hosted an annual performing arts day camp for inner city youth in the Atlanta area. She was inspired by how the gifted rapper, actor and one-time dancer studied at the Baltimore School for the Arts ? crucial since, back then, she was smoking crack cocaine.
