Khalillah Ali, a family nurse practitioner; Andrella Smith, an RN and member of the National Black Nurses Association; Pat Medley, also of the NBNA; and Bridgett Ellison, HowardUniversity graduate of counseling provided health information.
By Amanda Miller
WI Contributing Writer
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Messages prevailed on tee-shirts, key-chains and many other objects available for sale: “Uplift Black Families,” “Uppity Negro,” “Homeland Scrutiny,” “I am One in a Million”. Activism was alive and well – it also was on sale.
Mike, who traveled from New Jersey and who wouldn’t give his last name because “the White people might be watching us,” started at 7 a.m. selling “Millions More Movement” magnets and air fresheners memorializing the event. When asked if he came
for the event or to sell his wares he admitted it was a little bit of both. “I’m not looking to get rich,” he said, also noting that he hadn’t made it over to the actual Mall to hear any of the speakers. “I’ll probably get the DVD or just catch it on CNN.”
By Brooke N. Garner
WI Contributing Writer
It has been over a year since 23-year-old Kendra Mercedes Smith was gunned down in front of her mother’s Southeast home on September 7, 2004 .
There have been no arrests thus far, a fact that does not sit well with mother Deborah Evans-Bailey.
Fathers Return To The Call
By Taaq Kirksey
WI Contributing Writer
Thousands of fathers - veteran and novice - brought sons, daughters and grandchildren to the National Mall Saturday for the Millions More Movement march. For some, it was the lure and lore of the 1995 Million Man March, an event which challenged Black men throughout America and the Diaspora to become more active within their own communities, or, at least, more aware. For others, it was a revisit of one of the central points of the 1995 march: the need for strong, responsible fathering in the Black community.
For Toney Parker, 35, of Largo, it was the continuation of a tradition. He attended the first as well as 2000’s Million Family March. His daughter, Kosa, was an infant at the latter event. Now 7, she has been joined by little sister Sala, 3. “I’d like for the kids to see how we can be together peacefully and enjoy the whole vibe,” said Johnson. “When they get older and start to think about social issues, they’ll know that me and their mother were here, trying to be activists.”
