Qubilah shabazz malaak shabazz biography

Daughter of Muslim minister Malcolm X (born 1960)

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 assassination of her father.

She has maintained her innocence.

Betty shabazz, grandson

She accepted a plea agreement under which she was required to undergo psychological counseling and treatment for her substance use disorders to avoid a prison sentence.

Early years

Shabazz was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1960.

Her father named her after Kublai Khan.^[1] Photographer and film-maker Gordon Parks was her godfather.^[2]

In February 1965, when Qubilah was four years old, she roused her parents in the middle of the night with her screams: the family's house had bee