Ilyasha Will be 43 this year and she has a new book called Growing Up X










Going on 43 and baby is lookin' gooooood.
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About Ilyasah Shabazz
February 21, 1965-Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem's Audubon Ballroom.

June 23, 1997-After surviving for a remarkable twenty-two days, his widow, Dr. Betty Shabazz, passes away from burns suffered in a fire.

In the years between, their six daughters reach adulthood, forged by the memory of their parents' love, the meaning of their cause, and the power of their faith. Now, at long last, one of the daughters has recorded that touching and tumultuous journey in an unforgettable memoir: Growing Up X.

Ilyasah was the middle Shabazz child, a rambunctious live wire and self-described "mommy's girl" who fought for-and won-attention in an all-women household, a warm place as full of fun as of learning, chaos, and love. From the first days after her father's assassination when the family was left homeless to the years of private schools and personal body guards . . . from studying the Muslim faith to understanding the mystery of boys . . . from coming to terms with their father's assassination to the shock of her mother's passing, Ilyasah's life is one of stunning contradictions: deprived and privileged, unique and endearingly normal.

Here is a girl carrying on the legacy of a renowned father and an indomitable mother while navigating childhood and, along the way, learning to do the hustle. Here is a child who was a different color from the other children at camp and yet, years later as a young woman, was not radical enough for her college classmates. Above all else, here is a tribute to a mother of almost unimaginable forbearance, a woman who "from that day at the Audubon when she heard the shots and threw her body on [ours, never] stopped shielding her children."

Written with great warmth and simplicity-and featuring reminiscences of famous friends, colleagues, and acquaintances, such as Coretta Scott King, Muhammad Ali and Spike Lee-Growing Up X is a fascinating look at a family many have admired from afar . . . and never seen so close.

Ilyasah Shabazz holds a masters of Science degree in education and human resource development from Fordham University. She is the Director of Public Affairs and Special Events for the city of Mount Vernon, New York.

…As a child, I often dreamed of my father. Sometimes the dreams were flickering images: his face, his smile, his hand passing me an oatmeal cookie. Other times they were long and complex, whole movies of my father in my mind. When I was ten, I dreamed I walked out the back door of our house, down the stairs, past the grapevines, into the yard, and saw him sitting on the patio with the awning overhead and trees at the side. He sat in a huge chair, one that gleamed and glistened like a throne. I was so excited to see him, so happy I could not contain myself. "Daddy! Daddy!" I yelled, running toward him. He grinned that beautiful, full-faced grin the world seldom saw but which those who knew my father basked in. Suddenly he opened his arms wide. "Daddy!" I ran and ran and ran, but I could never get close enough to touch him …

http://www.ilyasahshabazz.com/bio.html

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Heres some upcoming info on television special coming up on the 10 and 21 about her father.

Despite tragedies in his youth, bright and charismatic Malcolm Little educates himself during seven years in prison, becomes a devoted Muslim, changes his surname, and works for the empowerment of black people.
Channel: A & E Network 16
Airing Time: Thu 2/10, 7:00 AM (60 minutes)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE marks the 40th anniversary of his death with "Malcolm X - Make It Plain," airing on PBS Monday, February 21, 2005. This in-depth film portrait goes straight to the heart, mind and message of one of the modern era's most complex figures. Actress Alfre Woodard narrates the special.
Categories: General, Special, General/Documentary/Bio, Special/Other
Rating: TVG

But I don't know what the broadcasting time will be in the UK.

Doesn't she resemble her father in this picture





Same nose, same eyes, same cheek bones.

Selling Malcolm X

BBC Radio 4 8:00pm - 8:30pm, Monday 7 February 2004

Forty years after the assassination of Malcolm X, Tony Phillips travels to New York to meet Ilyasah Shabazz, one of his six daughters, to examine some archive material containing private papers, letters, speeches and diaries which turned up for sale on an internet auction site.

Is she married? to who?

where are her siblings