Afeni Shakur Net Worth

Afeni Shakur net worth: Afeni Shakur is an philanthropist and ex-Black Panther who has a net worth of $50 million. Afeni Shakur is best known as the mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur. Throughout her life, she has been actively involved in music industry and philanthropy. One year after Tupac's tragic death in 1996, she founded Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) and Amaru Entertainment with the money made from her son's posthumous albums. Ever since, the Georgia-based foundation provides art programs for young people, while Amaru Entertainment is the holding company for all Tupac's unreleased material. In addition to these two, she also launched a fashion clothing line, Makaveli Branded, seven years after her son's death. Established to keep Tupac's legacy alive through fashion, Makaveli Branded donates a portion of each sale to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation. As most of the African-Americans at the time, Afeni was a member of the African-American revolutionary socialist organization, The Black Panther Party. Thus, she was accused of taking part in numerous bombings as a member of the organization and she acted as her own criminal defense attorney at the court hearings.

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