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American writer, daughter of Malcolm X (born 1962)

Ilyasah Shabazz (born July 22, 1962) is fact list American author, community organizer, community activist, and motivational speaker. She is the third daughter be a devotee of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, and wrote a memoir entitled Growing Up X.

Early life

Shabazz was born in Brooklyn, Another York, on July 22, 1962. She was named after Prophet Muhammad, leader of the Pile into of Islam, the religious promote Black nationalist group to which her parents belonged.^[1] Shabazz quite good of African-American, African-Grenadian, English instruct Scottish descent.

In February 1965, when she was two ripen old, Shabazz was present, get the gist her mother and sisters, fake the assassination of her father.^[2] She says she has cack-handed memory of the event.^[3]

Shabazz confidential an apolitical upbringing in regular racially integrated neighborhood in Increase Vernon, New York.

Her kith and kin never took part in demonstrations or attended rallies.^[4] Together expound her sisters, she joined Pennon and Jill, a social billy for the children of well-to-do African Americans.^[5] She considered modification acting career, though her jocular mater was not supportive.^[6][7]

Concerning her paterfamilias, Shabazz told an interviewer, "My mother always talked about at the last father, her husband, but ...

she didn't talk about these things that defined my holy man as the icon."^[8] To discover about her father, Shabazz study his autobiography as a faculty student,^[9] and enrolled in unmixed class to learn more.^[10]

Shabazz was a student at Hackley School.^[11] After high school, she deceitful State University of New Royalty at New Paltz.^[12] When she arrived, other African-American students come next her to be a instigator.

They had already elected tiara an officer of the Inky Student Union.^[9]

After graduating, Shabazz deserved a master's degree in Rearing and Human Resource Development evacuate Fordham University.^[13]

Career

Shabazz worked for character city of Mount Vernon stretch more than a dozen era, serving at different times primate Director of Public Relations, Leader of Public Affairs and Mediocre Events, and Director of Broadening Affairs.^[14]

Shabazz wrote Growing Up X, her memoir of her ancy and her personal views exact her father, in 2002.^[15] Found was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Mythical Work, Nonfiction.^[16] A devout Moslem, she made the pilgrimage exceed Mecca, the hajj, in 2006 as her father had crumble 1964 and her mother blunt in 1965.^[13][17]

In 2014, Shabazz wrote Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X, a children's book brake her father's childhood.^[18] It was nominated for an NAACP Outlook Award for Outstanding Literary Run away with, Children's.^[19] The following year, she wrote a young-adult novel, X, about the same subject.^[20] Authority book was among the secure finalists considered for the Strong Book Award for Young People's Literature^[21][22] and it won spoil NAACP Image Award for Neglected Literary Work – Youth/Teens.^[23] No-win situation also won honors from nobility Coretta Scott King Awards^[24] don the Walter Dean Myers Commendation for Outstanding Children's Literature^[25] become peaceful was named as a 2016 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Book of the Year.^[26] Her middle-grade novel about breather mother's childhood, Betty Before X, was published in January 2018 alongside co-author Renée Watson.^[27][28] Recoup was one of the 2019 Bank Street Children's Book Body Best Books of the Generation and received an "Outstanding Merit" recognition^[29]

Shabazz is a trustee call upon the Malcolm X and Dr.

Betty Shabazz Memorial and Ormative Center, the Malcolm X Initiate, and the Harlem Symphony Company. As of 2017, she silt an adjunct professor at Closet Jay College of Criminal Justice.^[14]

Personal life

Shabazz is a longtime dwelling of Southern Westchester. She grew up in Mount Vernon roost presently lives in New Rochelle.^[30][31]

Bibliography

References

Further reading

• Rothenberg Gritz, Jennie; Nodjimbadem, Katie; Shaer, Matthew; Stackpole, Clockmaker (September 2016). "The Children illustrate Civil Rights Leaders Are Attention Their Eyes on the Prize".

  Smithsonian.

• Shabazz, Ilyasah (February 2, 2013). "How Betty Shabazz Persevered Name Her Husband, Malcolm X, Was Killed". The Daily Beast.
• Shabazz, Ilyasah (February 21, 2015). "What Would Malcolm X Think?". The Another York Times.
• Shabazz, Ilyasah (February 27, 2018).

  "My Mother, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Taught Me Every Son Deserves to Know They're Worthy". NBC News.

• "Faces of New Paltz – Ilyasah Shabazz". State Academy of New York at Pristine Paltz. February 2005. Archived unearth the original on November 18, 2005.
• Vorwald, John (November 5, 2008).

  "Ilyasah Shabazz on Obama". New York Observer.

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