Ilyasah Shabazz

Ilyasah Shabazz is an American author, community organizer, social activist, and motivational speaker, and the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. She wrote the memoir Growing Up X. Her books also include Betty Before X, which follows her mother from childhood into young adulthood, and Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew up to Become Malcolm X, about her father's early life. She has further written The Awakening of Malcolm X and the historical novel X.