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10/16/2024

Perhaps the most precise assessment of the March and its aftermath was observed by entrepreneur, author, political analyst, and social commentator Dr. Boyce Watkins. “The Million Man March is probably one of the greatest events and achievements in the history of Black people in this country and around the world. It only further solidified that the Nation of Islam is the premier model of Blackness, aspirational Blackness in the 21st and 22nd centuries,” he said.

“It’s the benchmark against which any and all other events is compared in our community. You can’t name anything that’s happened since 1995 that matches the Million Man March.”

“The March was ahead of its time. It’s just something that I think the world has yet to fully digest the magnitude of the ideas presented at this event,” Mr. Watkins continued. “It makes perfect sense that the enemy would want to marginalize the Million Man March because it wasn’t about integration or these loosely defined concepts, like equality.

It was about building the Black man and the Black woman up to be a competitor in this world. It’s not (White America’s) job to celebrate the March on their media outlets and teach it in their schools; it’s our job to do that. And I believe that we are up for that job.”

https://new.finalcall.com/2021/10/19/more-than-a-memory-the-importance-of-the-million-man-march-then-and-now/

Long Live The Spirit of The Million Man March


photo credit: Dr. Boyce Watkins

10/02/2024

Salute to my Sister Margaret Mahdi and her Mahdi Theatre Company 💕 Contact her to order your shirt.

Bronzeville The Musical is about a Father's love for his son, the legacy and courage of a people as it honors the significance of the Black Family and its "role" in preserving the community.🌹

08/21/2024

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06/25/2024

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in." The Honorable George Washington Carver 💕

06/03/2024

Excellent article by my Brother, Terence Moore. He mentions you Brother Gregory White. Salute ⚾

After more than a century, Major League Baseball admitted this week the Negro Leagues rocked beyond Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell. But hold your applause.

04/03/2020

"ANY leadership that teaches you to depend upon another race is a leadership that will enslave you." - Honorable Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey interview, Mr. Garvey speaks about his trial and persecution Sometime before 1925 Marcus Garvey gives an interview about his trial for mail fra...

09/11/2019

Reparations was a major issue taken up by Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. He wrote and spoke about it profusely. It's one of the most overlooked chapters in his life. ✊

A newly uncovered speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in 1967 sounds curiously like the civil rights icon is speaking about current-day conditions as he preaches about underfunded schools, the wage gap, white backlash against black progress and the country’s need to address poverty.

11/15/2018

🤔 Don't be no darn fool. College matters and HBCU's are crucial to our communities future. Only an enemy 👿 (external and internal) would oppose higher education 📚. Listen to these FACTS from former Tuskegee University President, Dr. Gilbert Rochon...

Dr. Gilbert Rochon discusses the role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in leveling achievement gaps in the United States while also de...

05/24/2018

This isn't taught in homes, schools, churches, mosques, colleges (except http://livingstone.edu), synagogues or seminaries.😞 One of the great Black leaders in history, The Honorable Rev. Dr. Joseph Charles Price.✊ Although Dr. Price is rarely acknowledged today, most newspapers, national or international, from Reconstruction Era to 1893 covered him and his works. Efforts were underway to help Livingstone College become like Tuskegee Institute, at the time of his sudden death (39 years of age). One of his financial supporters💰was prominent philanthropist Mrs. Mary Ellen Pleasant. The strongest supporter was none other than his phenomenal wife and educator, Jennie Smallwood-Price. If Dr. Price had lived to 1895, many of his contemporaries and historians agree that the Honorable Booker T. Washington would've never delivered the historic Cotton States Exposition speech in Atlanta. Dr. Price's legacy lives on at (http://livingstone.edu) in Salisbury, NC.

03/08/2018

March 24, 2018, 11am-12:30pm - The Phenomenal Women of Sweet Auburn Avenue Tour

03/01/2018

Black Mecca of the South Tours was honored to share our knowledge of Joyland in South Atlanta on CBS46 Atlanta. Major props to Brother Vince Sims (PMBC) for connecting his colleague Brother Keith Whitney with us and the rest is history. We share much more on this story in our upcoming book, 100 Amazing Facts About Black Atlanta: A Requiem To J. A. Rogers. We stand on the shoulders of greatness!

The mystery of Joyland: Unlocking the secrets of one of Atlanta's oldest communities