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October marks the 27th anniversary of the Million Man March. It was a massive gathering of Black men around the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Several of the men who were there in 1995 are from ...
Fifteen disparate African American men board a bus in Los Angeles bound for Washington, D.C., where they plan on attending the Million Man March.Other than their race, destination, and gender, the men have nothing in common: George is the trip organizer; Xavier is an aspiring filmmaker hoping to make a documentary of the March; Flip is the vain but charismatic and openly homophobic and sexist ...
March attendees. One of the primary motivating factors for the march was to place black issues back on the nation's political agenda.In the aftermath of the Republican Party's victory in the 1994 Congressional election and the continued success of the party's campaign platform, the Contract with America, some African-American leaders believed that the social and economic issues facing the ...
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spearheaded both the 1995 and 2015 demonstrations. [1] Tamika D. Mallory served as a national organizer. [2] Organizers expected hundreds of thousands of participants and, unlike the 1995 demonstration, attempted to make the march more inclusive by extending invitations to white people, women, and other ...
Chavis later served in 1995 as the National Director of the Million Man March, and the Founder and CEO of the National African American Leadership Summit (NAALS). Since 2001, Chavis has been CEO and Co-Chairman of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, [2] [3] in New York City which he co-founded with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.
One Million Strong is a 1995 compilation of hip hop music released by Mergela Records/SOLAR to commemorate the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C. The compilation was released on November 7, 1995 and featured some of hip hop's biggest names, including the song "Runnin'", which was one of the few collaborations between 2Pac and Notorious B.I.G.
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“Chris Brown: A History of Violence,” premiering Oct. 27 on ID at 9 p.m. ET, will kick off ID’s third annual “No Excuse for Abuse” campaign, which falls during Domestic Violence ...