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In 1997, when Betty Shabazz tragically died as a result of a fire set by her grandson Malcolm--named after her late husband, Malcolm X--most of the world had seen her as a grieving widow who was faced with the task of raising six daughters without a father. But as this beautiful mini-coffee-table book shows, Shabazz overcame enormous odds by becoming an excellent educator, mother, and role model. Compiled with love by music industry-entertainment reporter Jamie Foster Brown, founder and publisher of the magazine Sister 2 Sister, this collection offers simple, heartfelt, and often witty words of reverence from a wide array of famous and not-so-famous African American women. Suetta McCree, a hometown friend of Shabazz's from Detroit, recalls, "Betty was a good girl ... she did what she was supposed to do." Tributes are offered by entertainers Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, and Mary J. Blige, actress Ruby Dee, civil rights leaders Coretta Scott King and Myrlie Evers-Williams, California Representative Maxine Waters, and author Gloria Naylor. Poet Maya Angelou sums up the general tone of this beautiful offering when she writes of Shabazz, "She was my sister and I was hers, we were strong women together." --Eugene Holley Jr.
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