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Shabazz, Malikah

Malikah Shabazz (b. 1965 - d. November 21, 2021, Brooklyn, New York).  One of the youngest daughters of Malcolm X and his wife Betty Shabazz.  Malikah and her twin sister Malaak were born a few months after the assassination of their father, Malcolm X, on February 21, 1965.  Malikah and Malaak were in the womb of the pregnant Betty Shabazz who was present during the assassination of her husband. Ironically, Malikah was found dead four days after a judge exonerated two men who were convicted in 1966 of assassinating Malcolm X the year before.  Malikah's mother, Betty Shabazz, died from injuries sustained in a fire (caused my her grandson) at her home in Yonkers in 1997. Malikah Shabazz left New York in 1999 and moved first to North Carolina and then to Maryland, before returning to New York.  She had a complicated relationship with her sisters, with whom she fought for more than a decade over her mother’s estate.  In 2011, she pleaded guilty to running up credit-card debt in the name of a 70-year-old widow whose husband had been one of Malcolm X’s bodyguards. She was sentenced to five years probation.

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