Mutulu Shakur

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Mutulu Shakur (born August 8, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland as Jeral Wayne Williams) was a member of the Republic of New Africa and a close friend of Geronimo Pratt. Shakur is an acupuncturist who pioneered a successful method to reduce the withdrawal symptoms of drug addicts, and speed recovery.

In the 80's, he was arrested on RICO charges of bank robbery and aiding his sister, Assata Shakur, in her escape from prison. While at large, on July 23, 1982 he became the 380th person added by the FBI to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was arrested February 11, 1986 in California and was found guilty. His case is currently on appeal. He served several years at the infamous ADX Florence, but later transferred to Coleman II USP.

Shakur is probably best known at this point for being the stepfather of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur, and father of rapper Mopreme. Shakur was interviewed in the Oscar-nominated documentary "Tupac: Resurrection", in which he described how he wrote a "Thug Life Handbook" with Tupac, which expressed an anti-drug and anti-violence message.

Mutulu founded a New York based organization by the name of "Dare 2 Struggle" [1], and released a compilation CD under the same name. As Shakur explains it the CD was created in order to: motivate, inspire, and challenge Black People to "Dare 2 Struggle" against all of their obstacles.

Shakur has five children including two daughters (Sekiywa and Nzingha) and three sons (Mopreme, Chinua and Ayize)