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Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. ... and advocating for publishers of the nation's more than 230 black newspapers. ... and Islam. Today, Chavis continues to work on ...
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.
Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, the national director for the march, when asked by USA Today if he thought it would be as successful as the Million Man March answered: "Yes, we believe that the Million Family March will be as successful as the Million Man March. But the Million Man March and the Million Family March have different objectives.
While the wheels of justice turn slowly, the old aphorism goes, they grind exceedingly fine. Yet, as the civil rights activist Rev. Benjamin Chavis told me almost 50 years ago, “they rarely ...
Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, Hip Hop Summit Action Network; Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Skinner Leadership Institute; Dr. Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women; Dr. Conrad Worrill, National Black United Front; Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, New Black Panther Party; Charles Steele, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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]
Chavis' previous work includes authoring the city's "African-American Heritage Guide" and another history book, "Our Roots, Our Branches, Our Fruit: High Point's Black History, 1859-1960."
Benjamin Chavis: 1948 United States: activist, chemist, minister, author, leader of Wilmington Ten, led Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, campaigned against environmental racism, executive director of NAACP, national director of Million Man March: Fred Hampton: 1948 1969 United States