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Shakur was born in New York City into a nobility of violence: his mother, a Black Panther, was jailed on a bombing charge while she was pregnant with him, although she was later acquitted. His father was shot and killed when Tupac was a child. Their son, meanwhile, wrote sensitive poetry while attending the High School of Performing Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. Shakur never entirely ceased extolling black womanhood or elders. Increasingly, however, such lyrics were shouldered aside by the bitches and cop-killing bullets of gangstaism. The dominant persona, says rap reporter Larry Hester, was "a villain, a joker...
...Panther shareholders will probably fare no better, despite the wizardry of Huizenga, 56, whose triumphs include forging a handful of video stores into the Blockbuster Entertainment empire. But that business was never plagued by fickle fans or soaring team salaries that can fly off with profits. "This won't be a growth stock like Blockbuster," Huizenga acknowledges. "Investing will be a matter of pride. We're trying to build community spirit and get Joe Fan to rally around the team...
Before becoming the community youth center, the house was the headquarters for a chapter of the Black Panther Party, according to Iona S. Nze, executive director of a neighborhood housing corporation...
...generally a bore. The nymphs, shepherds and Sileni who decorate the big classical landscapes of his middle years are inert and stereotyped. He didn't have the temperament for the sensuousness Poussin put in his classical scenes; Corot's nymphs are just studio models. In Bacchante with a Panther, 1860, the girl teasing the big cat with what appears to be a dead starling looks like Mlle. Goosepimple, thanks to the gray French skies above and the damp earth under her bottom...
Former Black Panther and former death row prisoner Lawrence Hayes and Robert Meeropol, the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for conspiring "to steal the secret of the atomic bomb," also spoke at the panel...