Education and Career
Shabazz was a student at The Masters School. After high school, she attended State University of New York at New Paltz. When she arrived, other African-American students expected her to be a firebrand. They had already elected her an officer of the Black Student Union.
After graduating, Shabazz earned a master's degree from Fordham University. As of 2007, she worked as Director of Public Affairs and Special Events for the city of Mount Vernon.
Shabazz wrote Growing Up X, her memoir of her childhood and her personal views on her father, in 2002. A devout Muslim, she made the pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj, in 2006 as her father had in 1964 and her mother did in 1965.
In 2007, Shabazz was an advising scholar in the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Prince Among Slaves, produced by Unity Productions Foundation.
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