Mallory was born in
The Bronx,
New York City, to Stanley and Voncile Mallory
[6] in New York City. She grew up in the
Manhattanville Houses in Manhattan and moved to
Co-Op City in the Bronx when she was 14.
[7] Her parents were founding members and activists of Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN), a leading civil rights organization throughout the
United States.
[8] Their work in NAN influenced Mallory and her interests in
social justice and
civil rights.
Mallory is a
single mother to her son Tarique. Her son's father, Jason Ryans, was murdered in 2001.
[7] Mallory explains that her experience with NAN taught her to react to this tragedy with activism. Her son is a member of NAN.
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[this is why they really mad]
In 2018, Mallory criticized
Starbucks for including the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization whose stated mission is to "fight anti-Semitism and all forms of hate",
[13] in a company-wide racial bias training after the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia. In a tweet,
she accused the ADL of "attack[ing] black and brown people" and wrote "ADL sends US police to Israel to learn their military practices. This is deeply troubling. Let’s not even talk abt their attacks against .@blacklivesmatter.”[14] Starbucks subsequently dropped the ADL from its anti-bias training, a decision that Liel Leibovitz of
Tablet said was "giving in to bigotry."
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