

Dear Mama
2023-04-21 · 60 min / episode · ★ 8.6
Explore the history of activist Afeni Shakur and hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, two voices that could not be silenced. Told through the eyes of the people who knew them best, this series is an intimate wide-angle portrait of the most inspiring and dangerous mother-son duo in American history, whose unified message of freedom, equality, persecution and justice are more relevant today than ever.
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- Defiant Ones Media Group, Amaru Entertainment, DreamCrew, Interscope Films, MACRO, Polygram Entertainment
- Countries
- United States of America
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- Ended
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Tupac ShakurSelf (archive footage)
Afeni ShakurSelf (archive footage)
EminemSelf
Mike TysonSelf
Dr. DreSelf
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