Ilyasah Shabazz is an American author, most notably of the memoir Growing Up X, a community organizer, social activist, and motivational speaker, and the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. Shabazz was born on July 22, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York.
Shabazz was named after Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam, the religious and Black nationalist group to which her parents belonged. Shabazz is of African-American, African-Grenadian, English, and Scottish ancestry.
Shabazz grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, in a racially integrated neighborhood. Her family never participated in protests or rallies. Shabazz and her sisters became members of Jack and Jill, a social club for the children of wealthy African Americans.
Shabazz’s mother was not supportive of her desire to pursue an acting career. Her mother, on the other hand, was concerned with preserving her father’s presence and baked her cookies, which she would break a piece off to give the impression that her father had eaten it before she arrived.
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