Mutulu Shakur
Organization founder
1950 –
Who is Mutulu Shakur?
Mutulu Shakur is an American black nationalist, acupuncturist and alleged bank robber. He was a proponent of the Republic of New Afrika and a close friend of Geronimo Pratt.
Shakur is best known for planning the infamous $1.6 million robbery of a Brinks armored truck in New York in which a guard and two police officers were killed. One of his accomplices in the holdup was Kathy Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground and a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted List for 11 years. Boudin was arrested while making her getaway from the scene of the crime, but Shakur escaped. Shakur had been a leader of an offshoot of the Black Liberation Army. He is currently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary, Victorville in Adelanto, California.He is also the stepfather of deceased iconic hip hop legend Tupac Shakur
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- Born
- Aug 8, 1950
Baltimore - Also known as
- Jeral Wayne Williams
- Dr. Mutulu Shakur
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Afeni Shakur
(1975 - 1982) - Sharon Harding
- Afeni Shakur
- Children
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Baltimore
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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