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Five panelists and the keynote speaker, Secretary-General Gertrude Mongella, spoke before an audience of about 50 people at "Beijing and Beyond." Individual panelists addressed topics including Islam, Buddhism, freedom of expression, leadership and women in the workforce...
Both the goals of the march and the massive support it has garnered seem to indicate a conscious choice by black males to undergo a marked change in behavior. In the words of the march's mastermind, Louis Farrakhan, Minister of the Nation of Islam: "As the sons of proud people we are coming together and moving forward to chart the course for our future as responsible heads of our families; to reclaim and build our neighborhoods; to unify our families; and to save our children who will lead us into the next millennium...
...humility and pride. Farrakhan calls the gathering (there will be no actual march) a day of atonement. Participants are to repent for their mistreatment of one another and of black women, for their abandonment of positive family values and their failure to put God first. But the Nation of Islam leader also envisions a day of muscle flexing. He and his co-organizer, ex-N.A.A.C.P. head the Rev. Benjamin Chavis, will run a huge voter-registration drive in an attempt to turn one of the country's weaker constituencies into a powerful swing vote. And he has urged black...
Terrence Moore, a forklift operator from Chicago's West Side, will not be going. "I want to work with everyone," he says. "I respect the Nation of Islam, but they just want to divide. There are a lot of black men without access to the good things in life, watching their kids do without, and facing a lot of anger. It's a cycle of rage, and talking about the years of captivity [as he feels the Nation does] just makes more fire for the rage. It's like pumping poison into people...
...confidence in the jurors. "This," said Cochran, "has been a very good jury." He shook off the crowd and, flanked by several airport policemen and two bodyguards, at least one of them with the shaved head, suit and bow tie of a member of the Nation of Islam, ducked into a waiting black limousine, its windows darkened against the lights of Los Angeles...