Background
Shabazz was born in Queens, New York, on July 22, 1962. In February 1965, when she was two years old, Shabazz was present, with her mother and sisters, at the assassination of her father.
Shabazz was born in Queens, New York, on July 22, 1962. In February 1965, when she was two years old, Shabazz was present, with her mother and sisters, at the assassination of her father.
Her family never took part in demonstrations or attended rallies.
She is an author, most notably of a memoir, Growing Up X, community organizer, social activist, and motivational speaker. She says she has no memory of the event. She considered an acting career, though her mother was not supportive.
Her mother instead took interest in trying to keep her father"s presence alive, and baked her cookies, which she would break a piece off to give the impression that her father had eaten it before she came.
Shabazz was a student at Hackley School. After high school, she attended State University of New York at New Paltz.
When she arrived, other African-American students expected her to be a firebrand. They had already elected her an officer of the Black Student Union.
After graduating, Shabazz earned a master"s degree in Education and Human Resource Development from Fordham University.
As of 2007, Shabazz worked as Director of Public Affairs and Special Events for the city of Mount Vernon. Shabazz wrote Growing Up X, her memoir of her childhood and her personal views on her father, in 2002. In 2015, her young-adult novel X was published.
Shabazz is a longtime resident of Southern Westchester, living in Mount Vernon for most of her childhood years, and presently in New Rochelle, New New York
Shabazz had an apolitical upbringing in a racially integrated neighborhood in Mount Vernon, New New York Concerning her father, Shabazz told an interviewer, "My mother always talked about our father, her husband, but.