The Million Man March: How To Stay Resilient in Times of Struggle
On October 16, 1995 the streets of Washington DC were filled with black and brown bodies gathered at the National Mall. Organized by local chapters of the NAACP and the National African American Leadership Summit, an estimated 400,000 to 850,000 people were in attendance. At the same time, women were organizing the Day of Absence, where African-Americans were encouraged to stay home from work and school. The purpose of these demonstrations was to express discontentment with the way politicians in the 80s and 90s largely ignored black issues, and even subjected the economic troubles of the...