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Prince Shakur

Biography

Prince Shakur

Prince Shakur is a queer, Jamaican-American freelance journalist, cultural essayist and grassroots organizer with a BA in Creative Writing from Ohio University. His words have been featured in Teen Vogue, Catapult, Level, Electric Lit and more. In addition, Shakur is the proud writer in residence at Sangam House, Twelve Arts, The Studios of Key West and La Maison Baldwin.

Prince Shakur

Books by Prince Shakur

When They Tell You to Be Good: A Memoir
by Prince Shakur - Memoir, Nonfiction

After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur’s family is rocked by the murder of Prince’s biological father in 1995. Behind the murder is a sordid family truth, scripted in the lines of a diary by an outlawed uncle hell-bent on avenging the murder of Prince’s father. As Shakur begins to unravel his family’s secrets, he must navigate the strenuous terrain of coming to terms with one’s inner self while confronting the steeped complexities of the Afro-diaspora. WHEN THEY TELL YOU TO BE GOOD charts Shakur’s political coming-of-age from closeted queer kid in a Jamaican family to radicalized adult traveler, writer and anarchist in Obama’s and Trump’s America.