Betty Shabazz
Also Known As: Dr. Betty Shabazz, Betty X
Biography: Betty Shabazz, also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was married to Malcolm X.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Georgia, USA
Birthday: May 28, 1934
Deathday: June 23, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Tribute to Malcolm X
Overview: A commemoration of the four-year anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, featuring an intimate interview with his wife, Betty Shabazz.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Unfaithfully Yours
Overview: A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-10
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Overview: The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Black Journal: 18; Malcolm X Liberation University
Overview: The 1960s black student movement at Duke University evolved into a separate institution to study and engage with the history and culture of the African diaspora. This film was produced for the National Educational Television (WNET) Black Journal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Nationtime
Overview: A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Overview: Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-26
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