Malcolm X's daughter to add to father's autobiography
Last Updated: 9:33 AM, April 12, 2010
Posted: 1:32 AM, April 12, 2010
Comments: 3Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X's daughter, has agreed to write the foreword to three chapters omitted from the original "Autobiography of Malcolm X." Released in 1965, the classic returned to No. 1 on the best-seller list 30 years later. The "lost" chapters were recently discovered by Detroit attorney Gregory Reed who acquired them, at auction, from the estate of Alex Haley, who co-wrote the book with Malcolm. Shabazz, author of "Growing Up X," says she believes "the chapters were omitted because they showed too much of my father's humanity." Reed plans to release them during a commemorative celebration of what would have been Malcolm's 85th birthday on May 19 at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Education Center, the former Audubon Ballroom in Harlem where he was assassinated in February 1965.
APIlyasah Shabazz stands by a mural featuring her father, Malcolm X.
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