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Malcolm X’s Daughter on Searching for Wisdom in a Father She Never Knew

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By Ilyasah Shabazz
| Oprah Daily Verified
5 min read Ilyasah Shabazz and her father Malcolm X outside John F. Kennedy International Airport, 1964. Malcolm X is often remembered in the cloak of “By any means necessary.” For him and those who followed his teachings, it was a declaration of freedom and self-respect, an insistence that human dignity must be defended through whatever means are just. Certainly, this edict is an important part of who he was, but it can also come with a one-dimensional image of Malcolm as an armed revolutionary.
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MALCOLM IN THE DESERT

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By Ilyasah Shabazz
| Kirkus Reviews Verified
A personal perspective on a momentous figure brims with brightness and fellow feeling. A year before he was assassinated in 1965, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam, disillusioned by its leader, Elijah Muhammad, who was having sex with his young secretaries. Malcolm decided to embark on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and, as his daughter relates in this slim but bighearted book, the journey was transformative.
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Ghost in the Night

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By Tiffany Jackson, Ilyasah Shabazz, Tanya Boteju
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Ghost hunting antics unexpectedly send three Black youths on a murder investigation across a heart-pounding adventure from Jackson (The Scammer) that features laugh-out-loud humor alongside tense emotional stakes. Raised by her late grandmother while her blues musician father toured the country, 12-year-old amateur photographer Harmony persuades her dad to bring her along on his upcoming tour.
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