The Malcolm X Black Heritage stamp was issued in 1999, two years after my mother passed away. Dr. Betty Shabazz worked with Mayor Edward Koch to rename Lenox Avenue in Harlem, to Malcolm X Boulevard.

Betty Shabazz was 28 years old and pregnant the Sunday afternoon in 1965 when a fusillade of bullets felled Malcolm X in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. Seated on a bench near where her husband was ...

Betty Shabazz was not that type ... In his autobiography, Malcolm X wrote he wasn’t prone to public displays of emotion but wanted his wife to know he loved her. Often on the road, he said ...

Malikah was one of six daughters that the late activist had with his wife, Betty Shabazz, who died in 1997. After Malcolm X’s assassination, the American public took a fervent interest in the ...

Finish story here; Honoring Dr. Betty Shabazz: Widow of Malcolm X, Educator, and Freedom Fighter Who Carried the Legacy Forward.

“Betty Shabazz has not been given the amount of ... to the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem to hear their father speak. Malcolm X, who had taken the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, had grown critical ...

On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed in front of his pregnant wife, Dr. Betty Shabazz, and their daughters. We know the story of civil rights leader Malcolm X, but history classes never ...

According to Russell J. Rickford's 2003 book Betty Shabazz: Surviving Malcolm X, the civil rights activist met Betty Sanders in 1956 when she joined the temple where he served as chief minister.

In The Acting Company's "X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation," currently running at the Theatre at St. Clement's in New York City, Malcolm X's widow seeks justice for the slain civil-rights icon by ...

Shabazz was one of Malcolm X and his wife Betty Shabazz’s six children. Malcolm X was assassinated at a New York City ballroom in front of his family at the age of 39 in 1965. His wife died in ...

Five years after it was founded, the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center is still finding its legs. The center, at 3940 Broadway in Manhattan, occupies three spacious ...