race

Race factored into Tupac and Madonna breaking up

In a note to Madonna, reportedly written by Shakur while he was serving time in prison in 1995, he acknowledges ending their romantic relationship because of her race.

"For you to be seen with a black man wouldn't in any way jeopardize your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting," Tupac wrote. "But for me at least in my previous perception I felt due to my 'image' that I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was."

Pop in the City: the weirdest race you'll ever do

As I set off in a jog after munching my way through six dry-roasted worms, beetles and crickets, an earthy, unusual taste coats the back of my throat. I take frequent sips – or, rather, increasingly frantic gulps – from a bottle to try and prevent their spindly bodies from repeating. And this isn’t even the strangest part of today.