OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A stretch of street in Oakland, California, was renamed Friday for Tupac Shakur, 27 years after the killing of the hip-hop luminary.
A section of MacArthur Boulevard near where he lived in the 1990s became Tupac Shakur Way, following a ceremony that included his family members and Oakland native MC Hammer.
The sign for Tupac Shakur Way was unveiled moments later.
“He said Oakland gave him his game.”The ceremony came the day after a former Southern California street gang leader pleaded not guilty to murder in the Las Vegas shooting death of Shakur.
Sekyiwa Shakur said her brother “died at 25 years old in gang violence, by the hands of another Black man, by the planning of another Black man, whoever that man may be."
Persons:
Tupac Shakur, MC Hammer, “, ” Shakur, Shakur, Councilwoman Carroll Fife, Duane Keith “ Keffe, ” Davis, Sekyiwa Shakur
Organizations:
OAKLAND, Oakland, San, San Francisco Bay Area
Locations:
Calif, Oakland , California, MacArthur, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco Bay, Oakland, Southern California, Vegas