Malcolm X’s daughter Malikah Shabazz found unconscious & dies aged 56

Malikah Shabazz, a daughter of the civil rights leader Malcolm X, has died.

She was 56. 

Shabazz was found unconscious by her daughter inside their home in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon, New York police said. Muhammad Aziz talks outside the courthouse with members of his family after his conviction in the killing of Malcolm X was vacated on Thursday. 

“At this point in time, working with other authorities, the medical examiner, and speaking to the family, she had been ill for a period of time, and at this point, nothing appears suspicious,” the NYPD commissioner, Dermot Shea, told a local news outlet. Malikah Shabazz and her twin sister, Malaak, were the youngest of Malcolm X’s six daughters with his wife, Dr Betty Shabazz. 

Betty Shabazz was pregnant with the twins when Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, a New York neighborhood, on 21 February 1965.

Malikah Shabazz is one of six daughters of slain civil rights activist Malcolm X!