Wabash College’s Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies will host Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of civil rights leader Malcolm X, who will give a talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the College Chapel.
Just two years old when her father died, Ilyasah Shabazz is best known today as the author of the widely praised Growing Up X, the autobiographical, life affirming account of how she and her five sisters, along with their mother, Dr. Betty Shabazz, survived without a father and husband in the decades following the dramatic events in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965, when Malcolm X was gunned down by three members of the Nation of Islam.
Her talk is free and open to the public.