Another Guy
Well, now I'm thinking about guys (I am a woman, you know), and I began wondering what happened to Jasmine Guy, whom I haven't really followed since "A Different World" went off the air. So I wasn't even aware of this twist in her biography:
JASMINE GUY first met Afeni Shakur in December 1994. Guy and friend Jada Pinkett (now Jada Pinkett-Smith), a close friend of Tupac Shakur, went to a New York City courthouse where Tupac was awaiting a hearing on sexual assault charges. Wrapped in bandages and confined to a wheelchair, Tupac had been shot five times the night before in the foyer of a Manhattan recording studio.
Guy met Afeni in the hallway. The women quickly struck up a friendship, and the former Alvin Ailey dancer and "A Different World" ' co-star was fascinated with Afeni's life.
Guy...spent the next 10 years talking with and recording Afeni's thoughts. Guy initially thought about making a movie on her life, but turned these intimate conversations into a book, "Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary."...
The memoir spans four decades, revealing the evolution of Shakur through a series of frank personal discussions on love, race, drugs, music and her son, Tupac, who was riding in the car of Death Row Records founder Suge Knight when he was shot four times. He died six days later, Sept. 13, 1996. His murder remains unsolved....
Controversial, outspoken and candid, Shakur presents her life as she lived it -- from the dirt roads of rural North Carolina to the streets of the lower Bronx. She talks about her marriages, her pregnancies, her drug addiction, abandoning her daughter, Sekyiwa, her addiction recovery, her years in the Black Panther Party and her love of Shakespeare....
[Jasmine] "I was fascinated with the New York 21 trial. (In 1969, Afeni and 20 other Black Panther Party members were arrested on suspicion of planning bombings. She was acquitted of all charges.) She fought to represent herself with no education and no law degree, obviously. She ended up studying and defending herself in such a way that it got her acquitted and, I believe, got them acquitted."
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