Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of civil rights activist Malcolm X, is calling for a congressional investigation into the 1965 slaying of her father.
Shabazz called for the investigation during the ABC News special, “Soul of a Nation Presents: X/onerated: The Murder of Malcolm X and 55 Years to Justice,” which premiered Friday on Hulu.
“We want to know the truth. We want to know why our father was killed and who did it,” Shabazz said. “I knew about my father. I knew about daddy. I knew about my mother’s husband. But I had never learned about Malcolm X the icon, and in college, I did.”
“There was so many who said that these men who were serving time were not the actual people who pulled the trigger,” Shabazz told the news station.
Shabazz was just two years old when her father was shot and killed at New York City’s Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965, is requesting a federal inquiry into their father’s death. She is one of the six daughters of Malcolm X.
Shabazz is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, an activist, a community organizer, motivational speaker and educator.
Last year, Reggie Wood (relative of Ray Wood) held a press conference where he would make shocking claims regarding Malcolm X’s killing.
“Without any training, Wood’s job was to infiltrate civil rights organizations and encourage leaders and members to commit felonious acts,” he wrote. “He was also tasked with ensuring that Malcolm X’s security detail was arrested days prior to the assassination, guaranteeing Malcolm X didn’t have door security while at the Audubon Ballroom, where he was killed on Feb. 21, 1965,” civil rights attorney, Benjamin Crump revealed at the conference at the time.
Three months ago, Nation of Islam members Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, who were convicted of killing Malcolm X, were exonerated.
During the ABC News special on Friday, Shabazz was asked why her father was perceived to be a threat.
“Because he held a mirror up to it all – the injustices. He spoke truth to power and especially during a time when there was no one doing it,” she added.
