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“Ilyasah Shabazz has created a honest and heart-warming tribute to her parents in addition to a powerful and musical coming-of-age tale. Growing Up X is meant to be always a classic.”–SPIKE LEEFebruary 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. July 23, 1997: After enduring for an amazing twenty two times, his widow, Betty Shabazz, dies of burns sustained in a fire. In the decades between, their six kids achieve maturity, cast from the ability of the religion, this is of the cause, and the storage of the parents’ love.