On Friday, Ilyasah Shabazz will return to the site of a national tragedy − the place where civil rights icon Malcolm X was gunned down in front of his pregnant wife and young children.

Just over 60 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in front of his wife, daughters and a crowded room of supporters while giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem ...

Malcolm X visited with Coretta Scott King in Selma, Alabama, while King Jr. was in jail there for events leading up to Bloody Sunday. “During his visit to Selma, he spoke at length to my wife ...

One other thing set The Autobiography of Malcolm X apart: its subject would not live ... if he died, to his wife. At one point Malcolm started to re-write earlier chapters praising Elijah Muhammad ...

Malcolm's future wife Betty Sanders becomes a member of the Harlem Temple and adopts the name "Betty X." They will marry two years later, after Malcolm proposes by phone from a Detroit gas station ...

In the melee his wife, Betty, is said to have screamed ... To these men, to fight was the expected and manly solution. No doubt Malcolm X knew the code and the violence which accompanied it ...

Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X when he became a member of the Nation of Islam. He rejected the surname that had been given to his family by the people that had enslaved them.