Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, stood inside the building where her father was assassinated in February of 1965 and spoke....
Ilyasah Shabazz (born July 22, 1962) is an American author, community organizer, social activist, and motivational speaker.
At about p.m. on election night, Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, stood inside the building where her father was assassinated in February of and spoke about the election of Barack Obama.
"I know that a lot of people my age and older never expected this to ever happen,” she began.
Speaking under a wall-length mural studded with images of her father, Shabazz, 46, was addressing a crowd of about people gathered at the Malcolm X & Betty Shabazz Memorial Center (formerly the Audubon Ballroom) to watch election coverage amid panel discussions on youth community involvement, race, and of course, the potential impact of Obama administration.
“This day is extremely important, not only for people [in the U.S.], but for people who are oppressed and repressed around the world &#; to have someone like a Barack Obama, who to me, sort of possesses a lot of the qualities that my father possessed: a man of integrity, a man of compassion, a man wh