Sekyiwa shakur biography books

Sekyiwa ‘Set’ Shakur is the President of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation. Founded in 1997 by Afeni Shakur, her mother, the Foundation’s goal is to address mental health and trauma in the Black community through therapeutic resources, creative arts, and education.

Sekyiwa’s work in mental health is very personal to her. Throughout her life, she’s struggled with social anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies, and has been hospitalized 3 times, beginning at 20. At 21, her brother’s death had an even more significant impact on her mental state.

“I did not believe that Black was beautiful anymore, in that way.

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I couldn't see it in our community. I couldn’t see it the way that other people treated our community. So I didn’t have an answer to all of the darkness in my brain,” Sekyiwa said.

Therapy finally gave her a place to speak, and allowed her to understand the things she had experienced throughout her life weren’t normal experiences that she could j