Malikah Shabazz, one of the daughters of Malcolm X, has been found dead at her home in New York.
Per CNN, police said Shabazz, who was 56, was found at around 4:30 PM unresponsive in her home in Brooklyn, and later declared dead.
NYPD officials told NBC News that the city's medical examiner responded to the scene, and that the death did not appear to be suspicious.
Shabazz was one of Malcolm X and his wife Betty Shabazz's six children. Shabazz, one of twins, was born after their father was slain in 1965.
Malcolm X was assassinated at a New York City ballroom in front of his family at the age of 39 in 1965.
His wife died in 1997 at the age of 63 after suffering severe burns in a fire that was started by her 12-year-old grandson. The grandson was later sentenced to juvenile detention.
Bernice King, daughter of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr, offered her condolences for the death of Shabazz, saying she was "deeply saddened".
"My heart goes out to her family, the descendants of Dr Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X," she wrote on Twitter.
She noted that Shabazz's mother was pregnant with Malikah and her twin sister, Malaak, when Malcolm X was assassinated. "Be at peace, Malikah," she added in her tribute.
Malcolm X was one of the most powerful voices in the fight against racism before his shooting death in New York in 1965.
He remains a symbol of inspiration for Black men and others moved by his transformation from a street hustler to a historic figure the late African-American actor Ossie Davis eulogized as "our own black shining prince."
The assassination came after a public feud between Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam's founder, Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm X had accused Muhammad of infidelity and left the Nation in March 1964.
Last week, two men convicted of the assassination were exonerated during a court hearing. New York County Supreme Court Administrative Judge Ellen Biben granted the motion to vacate the convictions of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, who died in 2009.
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