Let us know you’re coming by registering Here. Charmayne Turner, Director of School Partnerships, Y of Central Maryland.Baltimore Beat Journalist Lisa Snowden McCray.David Fakunle and Deborah Pierce Fakunle, co- founders of DiscoverME/RecoverME, an organization that utilizes the African oral tradition to encourage the claiming of one’s narrative for personal and organizational growth. Kimberly Armstrong an advocate on youth violence.Cheryl Waters-Hassan, mother of Ta-Nehsi Coates and friend of a young Tupac.Kaye Whitehead will interview Black mothers and sons to include: Jeff Menzise, professor of clinical psychology at Morgan State University and Jamilah Barnes of Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation. The first segment will include a conversation analyzing Tupac’s lyrics with Dr. This program will include a panel talk with Black mother activists and Black sons discussing their special relationship surviving turbulent times. KayeRadio Show in a live on-air discussion of Tupac’s iconic hip-hop song Dear Mama. Note: This program will also be live-streamed on WEAA and Lewis Museum’s Facebook page as well as on 88.9 FM WEAA radio station. You are appreciated.Patrons can meet us onsite at the Lewis Museum to see this live on-air show. With a story like that, this famous stanza from "Dear Mama" holds so much depth: "There's no way I can pay you back, but the plan is to show you that I understand. An activist, revolutionary, entrepreneur, scholar and, more importantly, philanthropist, the mother of two survived the societal trappings of racism, in which she faced scrutiny under the watchful eye of the law as an active member of the Black Panther party in the 1960s and 1970s, and later successfully gained her own freedom after representing herself in court while pregnant and facing a 300-year sentence. This sense of political being stemmed from none other than Pac's mother. "We suffered the generation of '60s activists who were really hurt and 'Pac was born to be political, he was born to touch the hearts of the world, and he did that," Steinberg adds. So by the time "Dear Mama" arrived, the world was given a proper introduction to Afeni Shakur as an embodiment of stoic grace, resilience and Black motherhood. I'll never forget being in the apartment and just crying because we all have really powerful mothers who were in tremendous pain around their commitment to service and we suffered that."Īt the time, little was known about Afeni other than the news headlines about her affiliation with the Black Panther Party and the bits of info from 2Pac in interviews, such as one famous with Yo! MTV Raps, where he broke the news about his background story. "When he wrote 'Dear Mama,' was one of the first people he shared it with," Steinberg says. While the song is credited as rap record, in all actuality it was 'Pac's own version of the blues - or as friend Leila Steinberg ever so perfectly describes, "his Gil Scott-Heron record." "Even though I act crazy, I got to thank the Lord that you raised me," he raps. More than "Mama": Seven Inspiring Moments From Afeni ShakurĪt nearly five minutes, Pac spoke of the life and times of his mother Afeni Shakur by highlighting the trials and tribulations that culminated into her becoming the hero she was to him. "That's when he went from just being a really good hip-hop artist to being a voice." "It's just one of those songs that will play forever," Outlaw member and friend of 2Pac, E.D.I. And how Tupac was growing up, with the thugs, and older boys doing bad things, but they still showed him love and. Within its 16-song tracklist, each title played like statements ("So Many Tears," "Outlaw"), and the most poignant of them all arrived on track number nine, "Dear Mama." Tupac is mainly talking about how his mother was a single mother on drugs having to take care of two kids, and she still happened to show them heaps of love though, and talking about how much Tupac cares about her to write a song.
Whether or not he was fully aware at the time, 2Pac signed and delivered the game a magnum opus on 1995's Me Against The World.
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