The Potty Mouth Granny

Afeni Shakur was not a background character in history — she was a thunderclap with oratory skills. Activist, organizer, political defendant, mother of a cultural supernova. Steel spine, poetic fire. She was born on January 10, 1947, and became an ancestor on May 2, 2016 — and her contributions to Blackness are immense. Long before…