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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, he was a vocal ...
Shabazz was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 16, 1958. Shabazz says her name is Arabic for "the gift of God" ( Arabic: عَطَاء الله, romanized : `Aṭā'allāh) and she is not named after Attila the Hun as her father's autobiography states. [ 1][ 2][ 3] In February 1965, her sister Qubilah woke the family in the middle of the ...
Malcolm Shabazz. 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. 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 ...
Malcolm X encouraged others to overcome racism "by any means necessary." In 1964, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and made his hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Malcolm X continued to speak out against ...
Qubilah Bahiyah Shabazz (born December 25, 1960) is the second daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. In 1965, she witnessed the assassination of her father by three gunmen. She was arrested in 1995 in connection with an alleged plot to kill Louis Farrakhan , by then the leader of the Nation of Islam who she believed was responsible for the ...
Religious views of Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali in Sudan, 1988. Muhammad Ali was initially raised as a Baptist [ 1] before his high-profile conversion to Islam. [ 2] In the early 1960s, he began attending Nation of Islam Meetings. There, he met Malcolm X, who encouraged his involvement and became a highly influential mentor to Ali.
Malcolm X gained national prominence as the voice of the Nation of Islam, exhorting Black people to claim their civil rights “by any means necessary.” Judge tosses convictions of 2 men in ...
A new documentary focusing on the friendship and activism of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali is coming to Netflix this The post Netflix drops trailer for ‘Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali ...