Word: shabazz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slavery that there was one point on which former slaves were generally agreed: "that they must change their names." This process of shucking off so-called slave names, commonly in favor of names with an African or Islamic flavor, persists. Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and then Malik al-Shabazz. Cassius Clay transformed himself into Muhammad Ali. Lew Alcindor became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. The writer LeRoi Jones converted to Amiri Baraka...
From the first time that the two were brought together by Ebony magazine four years ago, a sense of kinship, then friendship, began to flourish. Yolanda King, 27, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., and Attallah Shabazz, 24, the daughter of Malcolm X (Shabazz is her mother's name), found that they had more in common than famous fathers in the civil rights movement: both have an abiding passion for the theater. With roles for black actresses scarce, they pooled talents and backgrounds to write and star in Stepping into Tomorrow, a play they have been performing...