Today Louis Farrakhan leads the nation as the head speaker in the 20th Anniversary of The Million Man March in Washington D.C. The Nation of Islam leader plans to lead this demand for change the same way he handled the original March 20 years ago. Today in 2015 he calls it the “Justice or Else” March.
Just like the original march October of 1995 hundreds of thousands of people gathered together in hopes to make a change for not only their families but for their next generations to come. This year women and men of all races and ages were invited to come out and join the March that will primarily focus on the deaths of unarmed Black men. Farrakhan is using his role as head speaker to touch on topics from unemployment rates to working on a better relationship between communities and law enforcement. Hoping to unite and shed light on the positive things that have in fact improved since the first Million Man March.
As oppose to just basing this gathering on negative occurrences, they are saluting each other and making the nation aware of the positive impacts that the media does not often cover or talk about. Benjamin Chavis, a Civil Rights later who attended the first march, announced that in the crowd 20 years ago was an Illinois state senator who went on to become president, “so we’ve made some progress,” he told the crowd. “Today’s gathering is a reaffirmation of the faith that the dark past has taught us and of the hope the present has brought us.”
