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Thirty-two years after Malcolm X was gunned down in a New York City auditorium, his widow would still speak of him at times in the present tense. "Malcolm thinks," Betty Shabazz might say. Or, "Malcolm's advice is..." On May 19 she attended celebrations to mark what would have been his 72nd birthday. "This has been the greatest day of my life," she told friends later. "Everywhere I went, I heard his voice on tapes." But after her husband's death, Shabazz didn't exactly linger in the past. She got a doctorate in education administration, eventually became director...
...almost never. Last week three generations of the Shabazz family were bound into a single knot of misery. In a New York City hospital, Shabazz was in extremely critical condition with third-degree burns over 80% of her body, the result of a fire inside her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment. Police say the 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...
Though never as visible as Coretta Scott King, Shabazz, 61, is likewise revered as the widow of a martyred black leader. As news of her condition spread last week, King and the poet Maya Angelou rushed to her hospital room. Jesse Jackson called from London. President Clinton faxed a message. But because of her age and the extent of her burns, doctors were pessimistic about her chances for survival...
YONKERS, N.Y.: Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, is in critical condition after a fire allegedly set by her grandson left her with third-degree burns on nearly 90 percent of her body. Twelve-year-old Malcolm Shabazz, who reeked of gasoline when he was arrested Sunday, will undergo a psychiatric evaluation before being arraigned Tuesday. "There were problems there with that child," family lawyer Percy Sutton told the Associated Press. "He's a bright young man, but there were some troubles there." The boy allegedly set the fire because he was angry that he had to live with...
...Shabazz D'Jembe Orchestra, a New York dance troupe that was scheduled to perform after the intermission, had transportation problems and was unable to perform. Instead, Chaponda led an encore of the gumboot dancing...