Malik Zulu Shabazz (born Paris Lewis in 1968[1]) is an American attorney and the National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party.
His father, James Lewis, was a Muslim who was killed under mysterious circumstances when Shabazz was a child. He credits his mother, who became a successful businesswoman, and his grandfather, who introduced him to the Nation of Islam, as strong influences.
In 1998, he was recognized by the National Bar Association with its “Young Lawyer of the Year” award.
..and in 2011 he was recognized as the “Middle-aged black man whose rhetoric is most like that of The Aryan Brotherhood”