BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 16th June, 1971, a hip-hop legend, Tupac Amaru Shakur, was born in the Eastern Harlem, Manhattan, New York. His birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks, which was changed in 1972 when he was renamed after Tupac Amaru II, the 18th Century Peruvian revolutionist who was executed after leading an […]

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