Malcolm X, who had taken the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, had grown critical of the Nation of Islam and its founder, Elijah Muhammad, and he suspected that he would be the target of an attack.

Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of iconic civil rights activists Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz talks with Dr. Chavis about growing up as a child of the slain civil rights leader.

Betty Shabazz was 28 years old and pregnant the Sunday afternoon in 1965 when a fusillade of bullets felled Malcolm X in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. Seated on a bench near where her husband was ...

Coretta Scott King, right, comforts Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's widow, as they join other civil rights leaders and about 200 spectators at Riverside Church in New York Tuesday Jan. 31, 1995, to ...

Shabazz is known for intentionally starting a fire that killed his grandmother, Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz, 63, in Yonkers in 1997. Betty Shabazz was seriously injured in the blaze and died ...

Shabazz continued the legacy of Malcolm X by making her own pilgrimage to Mecca in March of 1965. ... Betty Shabazz' impact locally was exceptional, hosting the National Council of Negro Women.

The 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, who as an Islamic minister had taken a vow of poverty, left Mrs. Shabazz with no source of income to provide for her four young daughters and the twins she was ...

The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Education Center also announced plans for their annual “Malcolm X Day” celebration.Set to be live-streamed Wednesday at 6:00 PM, the night will ...

For all of her life, the woman known as Mrs. Malcolm X, or Betty Shabazz, has been a survivor.She has always had an indomitable spirit, a determination to go forward despite persistent problems.A ...

Malcolm Shabazz, 12-year-old grandson of Malcolm X and Dr Betty Shabazz, is sentenced to one of few juvenile detention centers in nation that accepts arsonists, Hillcrest Center in Lenox, ...

Malikah Shabazz, the youngest daughter of Malcolm X, has been found dead in her home. She was one of the unborn twins that Betty Shabazz was carrying when Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. My ...

Malcolm X Trove Hidden During Feud. A court dispute over the estate of Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, has kept some of his writings from being published.