How many children did Malcolm X have?
THE daughters of Malcolm X have battled to expose the truth of their father's 1965 assassination - despite two being born after his death.
Some of the children of the murdered civil rights leader have followed in their father's philanthropic footsteps, while others took their own path - so where are they now?
How many children did Malcolm X have?
Malcolm X had six children with his wife Betty Shabazz - all of them daughters.
The powerful orator's family is gaining renewed attention in the wake of a deathbed letter from a policeman – which they claim shows the NYPD and FBI conspired in his murder.
Malcolm’s daughters, who all have the last name Shabazz, are: Qubilah, Attallah, Gamilah Lumumba, Ilyasah, Malaak, and Malikah.
Qubilah Shabazz - daughter
Qubilah Shabazz, 60, witnessed her dad’s horrific assassination as a young girl.
She was just four years old when she and three of her sisters accompanied their pregnant mother on February 21, 1965, to the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem to hear Malcolm X speak.
As they looked on from the audience, he was killed when three gunmen rushed him onstage, shooting him 15 times at close range.
The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
In 1995, Qubilah, the second-eldest daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, was charged in an alleged plot to assassinate Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, her slain father’s rival.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota tabled murder-for-hire charges against Qubilah in return for her agreement to complete a two-year psychiatric and drug dependency program and to stop contending that the government entrapped her, wrote the in 1995.
Malcolm Shabazz - grandson
She helped her sisters create a clothing line using their dad’s image, , which includes sweatshirts, hats, and T-shirts.
She also takes part in international humanitarian delegations.
"He was very much a Muslim, but he was also black. [In the United States], that meant something."
She added: "“Frankly, I don’t think things would be this bad if he was still alive. It was his passion to make sure injustice was heard."
Malikah Shabazz - twin daughter
In 2017, Malikah, then aged 51, of Berlin, New Hampshire, and her daughter Bettih, then aged 19, of Stark, New Hampshire, were charged with stealing a rental truck.
Cops also found seven pit bull dogs in what was described by Vermont State Police as inhumane conditions, reported the Associated Press.
The truck’s enclosed cargo area contained dogs locked in crates and covered in their own waste, charging documents stated.
One dog had injuries to its face, neck and eyes that required emergency care, the report added.
They were released on bail.
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On Monday November 22, 2021, Malikah was found dead inside her home in Brooklyn by her 23-year-old daughter - just days after two men were exonerated for her father's murder.
Police say the 56-year-old's death is not being treated as suspicious.