At the 60th commemoration of Malcolm X’s murder in Washington Heights Friday, his daughters demanded President Donald Trump unseal classified documents related to the civil rights leader.

2025 not only marks 60 years since Malcolm X’s death, but it’s also the centennial of his birth.

“We didn’t learn about the icon Malcolm X until we left for college,” Malcom X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz said.

Shabazz says she and her sisters just knew him as daddy.

“My mother did an incredible job. She made sure we knew who our father was, we knew of his ethical values,” Shabazz said.

Justice seemingly eluded the family. In 2021, two of the three people convicted of killing Malcolm X were exonerated when it was found the FBI and NYPD withheld evidence that could have led to an acquittal.

The family is suing those agencies, along with the CIA, for $100 million in a federal lawsuit.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump represents the family. He cited an executive order from Trump declassifying remaining records related to the assassinations of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King Jr.

“What is in Malcolm X’s files that is so bad that they won’t be released?” Crump said. “The truth must be known and that’s what we’re fighting for, the truth, and once we get that, we can get justice.”

But as his family awaits justice, on the anniversary of his death, they push forward to remember the civil rights leader’s contributions, started by his wife Betty Shabbaz.

“My mother safeguarded his legacy, and it just means a lot to us that people are now able to accept the man Malcolm for the man he really was,” Ilyasah Shabazz said.