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Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. (born January 22, 1948, in Oxford, North Carolina) is an African-American activist, author, journalist, and the current president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. He serves as national co-chair for the political organization No Labels. [1]
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a new religious movement, [2] a black nationalist religion, [3] and an African-American religion. [4] As well as being characterised as an "ethno-religious movement", [5] it has been labelled a social movement. [6]
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A person who has a news obituary (and not a paid death notice) in a national quality [1] newspaper, such as The New York Times or The Times, is usually notable. An individual obituary should be evaluated for bias in the same way as any other historical source, using the methods normally used by professional historians to evaluate historical ...
Members of the Nation of Islam at the march. In addition to their goal of fostering a spirit of support and self-sufficiency within the black community, organizers of the Million Man March sought to use the event as a publicity campaign aimed at combating the negative racial stereotypes in the American media and in popular culture.
In February, the United Church of Christ sent then-23-year-old Benjamin Chavis, from their Commission for Racial Justice, to Wilmington to try to calm the situation and work with the students. Chavis, who had once worked as an assistant to King, preached non-violence and met with students regularly at Gregory Congregational Church to discuss ...
Ben Chavis may refer to: Ben Chavis (educator) , American educator and controversial education reform advocate Benjamin Chavis (born 1948), African-American civil rights activist
George Washington Chavis (c. 1817 – after 1880), American free man of color who served in the Mississippi Legislature; John Chavis (c. 1763 –1838), American educator and minister; John Chavis (American football) (born 1956), American football coach; Kory Chavis (fl. 2005–2008), American wrestler also known by the ring name Rainman