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In this June 25, 2017, file photo, Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Smith told SiriusXM radio in an interview Wednesday, July 19, 2017, that she was a drug dealer when she first met Tupac Shakur in high school in Baltimore in the late 1980s. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Jada Pinkett Smith talks Tupac friendship, drug-dealing past

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 1996, file photo, rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles. A music journalist has filed an infringement lawsuit against the creators of the new Tupac Shakur biopic, claiming that portions of the film are based on his interviews with the late rapper. Plantiff Kevin Powell claims in documents filed Friday, June 23, 2017 that “All Eyez On Me” borrows from articles he wrote and interviews he had done with Shakur in the 1990s for Vibe magazine. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)

Writer sues Tupac filmmakers, alleges copyright infringement

By MESFIN FEKADU - Associated Press

In this June 5, 2017 photo, Demetrius Shipp Jr. poses for a portrait at the &quot;All Eyez on Me&quot; junket at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Shipp portrays the late rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed in 1996. (Photo by Ron Eshel/Invision/AP)

Despite delays, timing just right for Tupac biopic star

By RYAN PEARSON - Associated Press

In this combination photo, filmmaker Steve McQueen, left, appears at The London Critics Circle Awards, in London, on Feb. 2, 2014 and rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. McQueen is set to direct a documentary about Shakur. Shakur Estate trustee Tom Whalley and Amaru Entertainment said Tuesday, May 9, 2017, that the film is fully sanctioned by the late hip-hop artist’s estate. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP, left, and Frank Wiese/AP, File)

Steve McQueen to direct authorized Tupac Shakur documentary

By LINDSEY BAHR - Associated Press

This 1993 file photo originally provided by Columbia Pictures shows rap musician Tupac Shakur is shown in a scene from, &quot;Poetic Justice.&quot; (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures, file)

Tupac Shakur, slain rapper, to be memorialized with $500,000 bronze statue: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 1996, file photo, rapper Tupac Shakur arrives at New York's Radio City Music Hall three days before being fatally shot in Las Vegas. The car in which Shakur was shot was listed for sale for $1.5 million on Feb. 21, 2017, by a California memorabilia dealer. (AP Photo/Todd Plitt, File)

Car in which Tupac Shakur was shot is for sale for $1.5M

Associated Press

In this Sept. 2, 2012, file photo, Pearl Jam performs at the &quot;Made In America&quot; music festival in Philadelphia. The Seattle-based rockers and the late rapper Tupac Shakur lead a class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees that also include folkie Joan Baez and 1970s favorites Journey, Yes and Electric Light Orchestra. The hall's 32nd annual induction ceremony will take place on April 7, 2016, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Photo by Drew Gurian/Invision/AP, File)

Tupac Shakur, Pearl Jam, Yes to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

By David Bauder - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Afeni Shakur, mother of the late Tupac Shakur, attends the 2Pac 40th Birthday Concert Celebration in Atlanta. Afeni Shakur has died. She was 69 years old. The Marin County, California, Sheriff’s Department confirmed her death. .(AP Photo/ Ron Harris)

Afeni Shakur, mother of rap legend Tupac Shakur, dies at 69

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FILE - In this Oct. 21, 1981, file photo, police are at the scene of a Brinks armored truck robbery at the Nanuet Mall in Nanuet, N.Y., where multiple Nyack police officers and a Brinks guard were killed earlier during the robbery. After more than 30 years behind bars Mutulu Shakur, accused of running a revolutionary group that authorities said was responsible for a series of armed robberies, including the Brink's heist, may soon walk free. (AP Photo/File)

Tupac’s stepfather up for parole in killings, Brinks heist

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2013 file photo, Jackson, Miss. Mayor Chokwe Lumumba speaks at a fundraising luncheon in Jackson. City Councilman Melvin Priester says Lumumba died Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 at St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson. He was 66. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

1st-term Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba dies at 66

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Film effects company DDMG plans Abu Dhabi studio

By ADAM SCHRECK - Associated Press

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Taking Names: Pulitzer Prizes announced; no award given for fiction

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Scotland Yard: We’ve arrested LulzSec spokesman

By Raphael G. Satter - Associated Press

Scotland Yard: We’ve arrested LulzSec spokesman

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER - Associated Press

Brazen, publicity-seeking hackers on attack spree

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER and PETER SVENSSON - Associated Press

Fugitive hip-hop mogul arrested on drug charges

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

Lawyer: My client did not hire to shoot Tupac

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Pale King’

By A.G. Gancarski - The Washington Times