WLOS: Malikah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, arrested in Madison County

Jason Sandford

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This is a wild story. From the WLOS page on Facebook:

Malcolm X’s daughter, Malikah Shabazz, is arrested in Madison County. Sheriff Buddy Harwood says deputies going to Shabazz’s home on a domestic call discovered felony warrants for her arrest out of New York. She’s being held in the Haywood County detention center pending extradition.

This recent New York Times story gives a good rundown on the legal wrangling that Shabazz and her sisters have been involved in:

A feud over the estate of Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, has created divisions among the couple’s six daughters and has resulted in something none of them had intended: keeping part of their father’s legacy from the public.

Malikah Shabazz has been locked in a dispute with her sisters over the estate of their mother, Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X.

The daughters have traded accusations of irresponsibility, mental incapacity and fiscal mismanagement of the estate, which is worth about $1.4 million. But the greater value may reside in a trove of unpublished works from Malcolm X and Dr. Shabazz.