(4) The various organizations involved have a history of homophobia and sexism. True enough. So this is what much struggle, compromise, and progress within the coalition needs to be about, as a priority. But this is also true for every large organization in the U.S. that isn't specifically and first and foremost an anti-sexist or pro-gay liberation institution. If we required of gatherings that everyone involved or even everyone having significant say over outcomes, have no bad past or present on these matters, it would consign a leftist to ignoring any gathering beyond their personal friends, and often that group too. And while it is true that the Nation of Islam's sexism and homophobia goes well beyond the norm in society's large organizations, the particular organizations involv...
The critical reading and rightful remembering of history is not automatic or easy, but requires steadfast resistance to the established order's version of things. Indeed, from the beginning, the established order and its allies attempted to discredit the MMM/DOA and deny its numbers and its clear and cogent emphasis on social policy and social change. This dual emphasis is obvious in the Million Man March/Day of Absence: Mission Statement, written by this author, and which evolved as a consensus document, an earnest effort by the National Executive Council to build on common ground and bring forth some of our best thinking and deepest commitments in our life and struggle as persons and a people. The statement of mission offers us a way to keep alive the spirit and social aims of the Mov...
Broward County Kick-Off Black Tie Banquet in Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March, June 18, 2005, 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), Lauderdale Lakes MultiPurpose Center, 4340 NW 36 St., Lauderdale Lakes, FL. This Pre-Father's Day Celebration is sponsored by the Men's Class of Fort Lauderdale (Broward County) and will be an exciting reunion of men who attended the MMM in 1995 who testify to the positive impact the 1995 event had on their lives. The Kick-Off is also to invite those who did not attend 10 years ago, to join the celebration for the 10th Anniversary.
...Million Man March. On Monday, October 16, 1995, hundreds o...
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will make Memphis his launching pad this weekend to address issues in the black community and create a blueprint for social change. The Muslim minister's ability to appeal across religious and class lines has made him a popular figure in some circles.
After having what he describes as a "life-altering experience" at the Million Man March, Quan Caston, a former U.S. Air Force reconnaissance photographer, returned from Washington, D.C., with a desire to make a difference in Milwaukee's black community. The end result was Chess Academix, an initiative that started as a tutoring program for "at-risk" children and has since evolved into a business that Caston is expanding nationwide.
CAIRO -- Egyptians are in the streets here again today, demanding faster reforms from a military junta that has ruled since the Feb. 11 ouster of Hosni Mubarak as president. Protesters called for a "million-man march" on the capital's Tahrir Square, the center of 18 days of demonstrations that ended Mubarak's 30-year rule.
News Advisory: -- Coalition of National Leaders to Announce the "Millions More Movement" in Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Community Action Partnership, the nation's largest anti-poverty network, is challenging the organizations participating in the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March commemoration to focus on American poverty. With 24.7 percent of the nation's African Americans living in crippling poverty, this must mot be a rally to merely ask black men, many of whom are poor, to atone and repent," said Derrick Len Span, national president of the Community Action Partnership. "This must be a rally to remind America of the horrors of Hurricane Katrina and the fierce urgency to eradicate American poverty. This moment should serve as a forum for facts and direction on expunging poverty from American society. We challenge the organizers not to squander nor ...
TEN YEARS LATER, over 65 percent of our children are still born out of wedlock. Ten years later, we are still five times more likely to die of homicide. Ten years later, still fewer than half of us own our homes. Ten years later, we still marry less, go to jail more, die sooner. Ten years later, the promises we made that crisp Monday in October lie fallow and unredeemed. On Sunday, it will be a decade since African-American men descended on the Mall in Washington, 400,000 strong according to the National Park Service. An independent agency retained by ABC Television said a minimum of 837,000 of us were actually there. But in the end, the event is defined not by hard numbers, but by a metaphorical one: one million.
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