Qubilah Shabazz
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Qubilah Shabazz (born 1960) is the daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. She was arrested and charged with the attempted murder of Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam. She was accused of using a telephone and traveling between states to hire another person to carry out the murder. Charges against her were dropped on May 1, 1995. It was later alleged that the FBI had used a paid informant, Michael Fitzpatrick, to frame Shabazz. After Shabazz's arrest, Farrakhan held a press conference in Chicago in which he accused the FBI of attempting to exacerbate division and conflict between the Nation of Islam and the family of Malcolm X. Nearly four months later, U.S. government prosecutors dropped their case against Shabazz.
On May 6, 1995, a packed public meeting in Harlem, New York, termed "A New Beginning," featured Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz. Originally organized by community activists as a fund raiser for Qubilah Shabazz's legal defense, the meeting marked the first public rapprochement between Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and the Shabazz family.
She is the mother of Malcolm Shabazz, who started a fire that killed his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, in 1997 in Westchester County, New York.
