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Approximately 400 well-wishers gathered in Memorial Church yesterday to honor the Rev. Peter J. Gomes' 25 years of service to the University...
...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 entertainers, black athletes and all black males who cannot attend the march (as well as black women and children...
...African Americans last week, 33% said they regarded him as a "positive force," and only 16% saw him as negative; the rest weren't sure. He enjoys a hard-won legitimacy among otherwise disaffected young men in the inner cities, where his bow-tied adherents are aggressively visible. The Rev. James Demus, pastor of the Park Manor Christian Church on Chicago's South Side, joined Chicago's Million Man March steering committee. Says he of Farrakhan's followers: "I admire their work in cleaning up drugs; I admire their sense of cleanliness and frugal spending." He adds the urban truism...
...issue with Farrakhan's derogation of other ethnic groups, his demotion of black women to a secondary position and his sometime disdain for Christianity itself. Many see the march as a power grab, noting that until Chavis belatedly came on board, it was an all-Muslim enterprise. Said the Rev. Bennett Smith Sr., president of the 2.5 million-member Progressive National Baptist Convention: "If you are going to invite me to ride on your airplane, don't send me a ticket after the plane takes off." The Rev. Henry J. Lyons, of the 8.2 million-member National Baptist Convention, informed...
...Rev. Charles G. Adams gave a passionate delivery of the William Belden Noble Lecture at Memorial Church last night, but he said he can't "whoop...