MALCOLM X’S DAUGHTER MALIKAH SHABAZZ LAID TO REST IN WESTCHESTER

Sun 28 November 2021:

Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, was laid to rest Saturday in New York.

After the funeral prayer at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Manhattan, she was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Westchester County, where her father was laid to rest.

Shabazz was found Monday in her home in Brooklyn, a police spokesperson said. Her death appeared to be from natural causes, he said.

Malikah and her twin sister, Malaak, were the youngest daughters of Malcolm X, who was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965. Their mother, Betty Shabazz, was pregnant with the twins when their father was killed.

Bernice King, a daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., said on Twitter, “I’m deeply saddened by the death of (hash)MalikahShabazz. My heart goes out to her family, the descendants of Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X.”

Malikah Shabazz’s death comes days after two of the three men who had been convicted of killing Malcolm X were exonerated.

Malcolm X was a prominent leader of the Black Nationalist Movement. He was assassinated while giving a speech in a New York City ballroom in 1965.

The funeral was attended by Malcolm X’s remaining daughters and a group of Black Muslim Americans in New York as well as Turkey’s Ambassador to the US Hasan Murat Mercan, among others.

The ambassador conveyed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s condolences to Malcolm X’s family with a red wreath depicting the Turkish flag.

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