Ilyasah Shabazz

Sep 27, 2024 | msmagazine.com | Ilyasah Shabazz

This essay is part of a Women & Democracy package focused on who’s funding the women and LGBTQ people on the frontlines of democracy. We’re manifesting a new era for philanthropy—one that centers feminism. The need is real: Funding for women and girls amounts to less than 2 percent of all philanthropic giving; for women of color, it’s less than 1 percent. Explore the “Feminist Philanthropy Is Essential to Democracy” collection.

Jul 23, 2024 | citylights.com | Ilyasah Shabazz

"An excellent introduction to the modern prison abolition movement." –Kirkus Reviews "In this personal exploration of today's abolition movement, Paula Lehman-Ewing takes the reader around the United States–the most incarcerated nation in human history–to reveal the creative and profound actions abolitionists are taking to make their communities safer and more free.

May 19, 2023 | essence.com | Ilyasah Shabazz

Today I am older than my father, Malcolm X, ever was. For the rest of my life, I will be older than my father ever had the opportunity to be, living the experiences age brings that he never had the chance to enjoy. As I look back on my life, I see how profoundly different it has been from his.  The America in which he lived for a mere 39 years, until his death in 1965, is one that I cannot ever truly understand—despite having spent my life thinking, writing and speaking about it.