Sundiata Acoli and a woman who took this surname were wounded in a 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike. That woman with this surname escaped from prison in 1979 with aid from the Black Liberation Army and was granted asylum in Cuba, where she died in 2025. Jeff Pearlman’s 2025 book about a man with this surname focuses on his relationship with mother, a member of the Panther 21, and took its title from one of his works, Only God Can Judge Me. Keefe D was arrested in 2023 over the unsolved murder of a man with this surname. Orlando Anderson possibly killed that person with this surname in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting linked to his feud with the Notorious B.I.G. For 10 points, the activists Assata and Afeni shared what surname with the rapper Tupac? ■END■
ANSWER: Shakur [accept Tupac Shakur or Afeni Shakur or Assata Shakur; prompt on Lesane Parish Crooks or JoAnne Deborah Bryan or JoAnne Deborah Chesimard or Alice Williams by asking “by what surname were they commonly known?”]
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