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Betty Shabazz (born Betty Dean Sanders; [2] May 28, 1934/1936 [a] – June 23, 1997), also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was married to Malcolm X.
It is rumored that he and socialite Durie Malcolm eloped after a drunken party in Palm Beach in 1947. But John's father, Joseph P. Kennedy squashed the marriage and possibly even made the records ...
A devout Muslim, she made the pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj, in 2006 as her father had in 1964 and her mother did in 1965. [13] [17] In 2014, Shabazz wrote Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X, a children's book about her father's childhood. [18] It was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work ...
Ben Holt, in the 1986 opera X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the New York City Opera. [385] Gary Dourdan, in the 2000 television movie King of the World. [386] Joe Morton, in the 2000 television movie Ali: An American Hero. [387] Mario Van Peebles, in the 2001 film Ali. [388] Lindsay Owen Pierre, in the 2013 television movie Betty ...
Malcolm Latif Shabazz (October 8, 1984 – May 9, 2013) was the grandson of civil rights activists Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, through their daughter, Qubilah Shabazz. Malcolm Shabazz made headlines for multiple arrests during his life, including setting a fire that killed his grandmother, Betty. He was murdered in Mexico on May 9, 2013, at ...
Leah Hawkins in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. ANGELA WEISS - Getty Images “Detroit Opera—their [2021] production of X was their first sold-out show in 10 years,” Leah Hawkins tells me..
Collins' mother Ella also lived in the house when Malcolm X was there, from 1941 to 1944. In the 1990's it was nearly sold, saved in part by Boston Mayor Tom Menino who turned it into a national ...
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is a biography of Malcolm X written by American historian Manning Marable. [2] It won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History. [3]Pulitzer.org described this as "an exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic."