Malcolm X’s daughter found dead in her apartment

Malcolm X’s daughter, Malika Shabazz, 56, was found dead last night in her Brooklyn apartment, in southern New York, with no apparent signs of violence, New York Police reported.

It was his own 28-year-old daughter who found the body of Malika, who had been ill “for a while,” according to New York Police Chief Dermot Shea, quoted in the newspaper. New York Post.

Although an autopsy will be performed, “nothing looks suspicious,” he added.

One of the first to break the news on her Twitter account was Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King, who was, together with Malcolm X, the great leader of the black movement in the sixties and who, like himself, was assassinated.

Bernice wanted to remember today that Malika and her twin sister Malaak – both with Muslim names after their father’s conversion to Islam – were still in their mother’s womb when Malcolm X, then 39, was assassinated at the time they were he was preparing to intervene in a public act.

Malcolm X’s name made headlines last week when a New York court acquitted two men – one of them already dead – on charges of murdering the black leader in 1965, which led to more than twenty years in jail. after finding the court abundant flaws in the investigation and the trial that led to his conviction.

Despite the enormous symbolism of her father in the fight against racial segregation, Malika has not been known activism in this type of struggles, not even when they have resurfaced with force with the Black Lives Matter movement, which have taken to the streets to Thousands of people to protest, among other things, against the police brutality that particularly attacks African Americans. (I)