Tag: What does Shabazz mean?
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What does El Hajj Malik Shabazz mean?
El-Hajj signified the pilgrimage to Mecca, Malik means king in Arabic, and Shabazz was a family last name that identified his wife and children. For Shabazz, a name connoted pride, culture, history, and self-respect for African Americans, “a lost people” whose ancestral names were unknown.…