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Afeni Shakur

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The Resume

    (January 10, 1947-May 2, 2016)
    Born in Lumberton, North Carolina
    Birth name was Alice Faye Williams
    Member of the Black Panthers
    Mother of Tupac Shakur

Why she might be annoying:

    She got pregnant with Tupac while out on bail awaiting trial for a bomb plot.
    Her two husbands, Mutulu and Lumumba Shakur, were adopted brothers.
    She became addicted to crack in the 80s.
    She admits she sometimes confuses the twelve steps of her drug recovery program with the ten point plan of the Panthers.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She organized the Black Panthers' children's breakfast program in New York.
    She successfully defended herself in the bomb conspiracy trial.
    She told the jury, 'Do what you have to do. All we ask of you is that you judge us fairly.'
    She founded the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, a charity to provide youth art programs.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 110 Votes: 29.09% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 1850 Votes: 45.24% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 164 Votes: 57.93% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 91 Votes: 43.96% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 66 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 155 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 138 Votes: 78.26% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 111 Votes: 70.27% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 89 Votes: 53.93% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 2315 Votes: 64.92% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 430 Votes: 67.91% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 409 Votes: 78.24% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 235 Votes: 76.17% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 878 Votes: 69.02% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 890 Votes: 74.38% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 430 Votes: 82.56% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 102 Votes: 69.61% Annoying