Word: qubilah
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...blaze was set by her grandson, who had lived with her for most of the past two years and returned in April after a brief, rocky stay with his mother in San Antonio, Texas. Friends and neighbors say Malcolm, 12, wanted to live again with his mother Qubilah, who had been briefly in the news in 1995 when she faced charges for plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...
...Shabazz children--just before his death, Malcolm X took the name Malik El-Shabazz--it was Qubilah who was marked most deeply by the traumas of her early life. When her father was shot, the four-year-old girl was close by with her three sisters and pregnant mother. A week earlier the family's home in Queens, N.Y., had been fire-bombed. Later Qubilah would say she wished her father had worked in a grocery store. "I was always angry he left me behind," she said. "If he were a simple store clerk, he would still be here...
...Though Qubilah attended Princeton University, she dropped out to move to Paris, drifting through small jobs and rooming houses. Her son's father has been described as a Nigerian she met at school. In time she and Malcolm landed in Minneapolis, Minn., where she thought about killing Farrakhan, a man her mother believed had conspired in her father's death. The government's case against Qubilah rested on taped conversations in which she talked about the plan. But the tapes were provided by a dubious witness, Michael Fitzpatrick, a former schoolmate of Qubilah's who was also an FBI informer...
...outgrowth of the case was a rapprochement, at least in public, between Betty Shabazz and Farrakhan, who helped raise funds for the family's legal expenses. An arrangement with prosecutors allowed Qubilah to avoid trial but also required her to undergo psychiatric, drug and alcohol treatment. She moved to San Antonio and began working at a radio station partly owned by former Manhattan borough president Percy Sutton, a family friend who was once her father's lawyer...
...Qubilah's deal with prosecutors called for all charges to be dropped if she did not commit a crime for two years. Last month she passed that milestone and resigned from the radio job, hoping to open a shop selling the knitted wool clothing she loves to make. But though neighbors and co-workers describe her as pleasant and quiet, her life in San Antonio was still a mess. Five months after she arrived, police were called by neighbors who heard music from her apartment but noticed newspapers piling up untouched outside. A police report says Qubilah came...