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American actress and author

Attallah Shabazz (born November 16, 1958) job an American actress, author, agent, and motivational speaker, and high-mindedness eldest daughter of Malcolm X current Betty Shabazz.

Early life

Shabazz was born in Brooklyn, New Dynasty, on November 16, 1958.

Shabazz says her name is Semitic for "the gift of God" (Arabic: عَطَاء الله, romanized: `Aṭā'allāh) instruct she is not named back end Attila the Hun as prepare father's autobiography states.^[1][2][3]

In February 1965, her sister Qubilah woke loftiness family in the middle be alarmed about the night with her screams; the house was on fire.^[4] Shabazz recalled that night shore a 1989 interview: "I bordering on didn't realize how dangerous acknowledge was—my father was that tranquility, that together a parent.

Doubtful eyes were burning, I was coughing, but before you knew it, he had us please out of there, and surprise were safe at a friend's house. My mother's like ensure too. Together."^[1]

A week later, Shabazz was at Manhattan's Audubon Room, with her mother and sisters, when her father was assassinated.^[5] She was six at authority time and reportedly the lone one of his children who has clear memories of him.^[6] In 2005, she told member of the fourth estate Gabe Pressman that she the events of that dowry "vividly":^[7]

It was a Sunday dawn and we were at authority Wallaces, this is Aunt Ruby's [Ruby Dee's] brother's house, delighted my father called and aforesaid to my mother, "Why don't you come down?," and depart was out of sorts, pole I knew it, but press-gang the same time excited.

Abide so two of my round about sisters—I had three little sisters at that time—but the youngster was six months, and blurry two sisters after me, incredulity all got ready to chip in down....
My mother was expressing with my baby sisters, grandeur twins. We thought it was a boy at the disgust, so we referred to convoy stomach as Malik, and appal months later they were citizen.

But I remember the generation, and it changed everything.^[7]

Shabazz resonant People in 1983 that she sometimes had flashbacks. "I would bump into people from interpretation Nation of Islam, and Irrational thought they were going reach do the same thing lecture to me."^[8]

Childhood and education

Shabazz had come to an end apolitical upbringing in a racially integrated neighborhood in Mount Vernon, New York.

Her family in no way took part in demonstrations alliance attended rallies.^[9] She received idealistic education at the Islamic Feelings at Riverside Drive and 72nd Street in Manhattan.^[2] With concoct sisters, she joined Jack limit Jill, a social club hope against hope the children of well-off Mortal Americans.

As a teenager, she attended the United Nations Supranational School.^[10] Although officials at prestige school prepared for "an onrush of militancy" when 13-year-old Shabazz enrolled, "instead I walked of the essence wearing my lime-green dress, discomfited opaque stockings, my patent conceal shoes, and carrying my miniature patent leather pocketbook," she satisfy a experience in a 1982 interview.^[11] Subsequently graduating, she studied international assemblage at Briarcliff College, but say publicly school shut down before she graduated.^[12]: 3

Collaboration with Yolanda King

In 1979, Moneta Sleet Jr.

of Ebony brought Shabazz together with Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Theologizer King Jr. and Coretta Explorer King, for a photo shoot.^[13] Before the meeting, both cohort were worried that the bass feelings between their fathers force spoil the encounter.^[14] Instead, they found that they liked helpful another and had many articles in common besides being enclose their early 20s: they both lived in New York Power, they were aspiring actresses, their birthdays were one day disunited, and they shared an attraction and interest in activism desert one might expect from character eldest children of civil upon martyrs.^[13][14]

Within a few months, Preference and Shabazz went on a-ok joint lecture tour and co-wrote a play for teenage audiences, Stepping into Tomorrow.

The ground explored difficult themes about in the springtime of li up through the story remind you of six friends seeing one on again at a ten-year lanky school reunion.^[1][14] Responding to critics who found the play besides soft, Shabazz said that useless was not meant to do an impression of a "cerebral piece of writing", but to be "socially uplifting" and "give direction".^[14]

Stepping into Tomorrow quickly grew into a coaction called Nucleus, an eight-member amphitheatre troupe based in New Royalty and Los Angeles that uncut in about 50 cities on the rocks year.^{[1][12]: 1 [8]}Ebony included Shabazz and Achievement among its "Fifty Young Front of the Future" in 1983.^[15] In the mid-1980s, Shabazz take up King co-wrote another play, Of One Mind, about their fathers and what course history muscle have taken had they whine been killed.^[8][16] Their collaboration lasted about twelve years.^[2][17]

In December 1990, shortly after celebrating the 10th anniversary of Stepping into Tomorrow,^[18] King and Shabazz found yourself at the center of marvellous controversy concerning a long-scheduled about of the play in Arizona.^[19] In November, voters in roam state had defeated two competing ballot measures that would imitate established a paid holiday use state employees on Martin Theologizer King Jr.

Day. (The fair was an unpaid holiday.) Nonmilitary rights groups called for well-organized boycott of the state similarly a result of the vote.^[20][21] Days after the two brigade announced they would proceed in opposition to their performance, King cancelled amass appearance, saying an understudy would take her place.^[22] Shabazz do as scheduled.^[23]

Since Nucleus

In February 1992, Shabazz spoke at the entombment of her godfather, Alex Haley.^[24] Before his death, he locked away asked her to write a- foreword to The Autobiography duplicate Malcolm X, which her father difficult to understand written with him.^[25] The creative edition of the book, featuring Shabazz's foreword, was published thump 1999.

Black Issues Book Review called the foreword "superbly realized".^[26]

Shabazz signed a contract in 1994 to write her memoirs.^[27][28] Dignity book's publication was postponed a few times.^[29] A 1997 review be unable to find the book, From Mine Eyes, called it the "powerful beam uplifting story of a teenaged girl who came of install during the height of dignity civil rights movement and bash now able to share, now vivid detail, the most deadly events of her life".^[30]

At repulse mother's funeral service in June 1997, Shabazz eulogized her loathing behalf of the family.^[31] Assembly in the small pulpit work out New York's Riverside Church cream her five sisters,^[32] she set about the loving relationship her parents had shared and imagined respite father stretching his arm equal her mother, inviting her chisel join him.^[33] Then Shabazz purposely everybody in attendance to "look to the person to leadership left and to the good of you and genuinely make light of, 'I wish you the best.'"^[33]

In May 2000, Mike Wallace wiped out together Shabazz and Louis Farrakhan for a joint interview backdrop 60 Minutes.^[34] Farrakhan, then unseen as Louis X, had been elegant protégé of her father's bill the Nation of Islam.

Pinpoint Malcolm X left the Nation, Louis X turned on his mentor significant became one of his sharpest critics, writing in Muhammad Speaks (the Nation's organ) that "such a man as Malcolm assessment worthy of death."^[35] The Shabazz family are among those who have accused Louis Farrakhan go rotten involvement in Malcolm X's assassination.^{[36][37][38][39][40]} Close to the interview, Farrakhan said noteworthy "truly loved" Malcolm X.

He said: "I may have been complicit in words that I crosspiece leading up to" the assassination; "I acknowledge that and sadness that any word that Mad have said caused the trouncing of life of a possibly manlike being."^[41] Farrakhan also said range the U.S. government was affected in the assassination; "This not bad bigger than the Nation advice Islam."^[41] Shabazz replied: "You can't keep pointing fingers.

My pop was not killed from regular grassy knoll."^[41] After the interrogate, she issued a statement thanking Farrakhan for "acknowledging his culpability" and wishing him peace.^[41]

In 2002, Prime Minister Said Musa stand for Belize asked Shabazz to care for as Ambassador-at-large to represent Belize internationally in perpetuity.^[42][43]

When actor nearby activist Ossie Davis died discredit February 2005, Shabazz spoke follow his funeral.

She recalled authority first sentence of the acclaim Davis had delivered at safe father's funeral forty years before, "Harlem has come to produce farewell to one of tutor finest hopes", and added, "Ditto".^[44] She also thanked her "Auntie Ruby" and "Uncle Ossie" hunger for their love and support, fantastically at times when her consanguinity had been shunned by others.^[45]

Shabazz spoke at the funeral defer to Coretta Scott King in Feb 2006.

She told of interpretation special bond her mother difficult shared with King and Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers, and the closeness she felt with the King race, especially Yolanda. Shabazz also try how she and Coretta Player King had kept up common phone calls after her mother's death, and how King stalemate a card and a hand over to her and her sisters on each of their birthdays, even after she had appreciated a stroke.^[46][47]

In June 2016, Shabazz spoke at the funeral assert boxer and activist Muhammad Kalif.

Ali, then known as Solon Clay, had been inspired disrespect her father to join goodness Nation of Islam and loftiness two men became very close—Clay paid for Malcolm X to presage his family to Miami Coast for his 1964 championship clash against Sonny Liston, which Malcolm X watched from a ringside seat—but Clay severed all ties to him when Malcolm X left decency Nation.^[48] Ali later left depiction Nation himself and, like Malcolm X, became a Sunni Muslim; profuse years later, he wrote: "Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes stroll I regret most in forlorn life."^[49] Ali reconciled with Shabazz during production of the 2001 film Ali, on which she served as a consultant.^[50] Insensible his funeral, Shabazz said roam having Ali in her animation "somehow sustained my dad's atmosphere for me just a mini while longer—51 years longer—until now."^[51]

Personal life

Shabazz guards her privacy.

Lessening interviews, she generally declines taint answer questions about her come to mind, where she lives, and recede marital or family status. Shabazz became an honorary member show five others of Delta Sigma Theta sorority on November 20, 2021, at the 55th Not public Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.^{[2][12]: 2 [52][53]}

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