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Family
affair
Photos by Kevin Walker
(Above) A man videotapes those gathered in
Washington for Monday^s Million Family March,
(Left) A man gets his point across to the crowd
with a simple sign.
Topics plentiful at Million Family March
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE .
WASHINGTON - Retha Bellamy
and Annie Hamlin Johnson were excit
ed about the possibility of being two in
a million.
The two friends were among several
dozen people from Winston-Salem
who made the trek to the nation’s capi
tal for Monday’s Million Family
March.
Bellamy was convinced to attend
the march by her daughter, who also
made the trip. Hamlin Johnson is the
mother of Larry Leon Hamlin, who
served as one of the chairpersons of
the local organizing committee for the
march. The two women talked a lot
about the good of days as they sat side
by side on a bus bound for Washing
ton.
Their conversation inevitably led
them to the topic of togetherness in the
black community. Both are old enough
to remember a time when blacks had a
much stronger bond, when love thy
neighbor was a principle people lived
by, not just talked about.
“Things were so much different
then. People respected each other and
depended on each other,” Hamlin
Johnson said, as her friend nodded in
agreement.
Both women hoped to grab, if only
for a few hours, a piece of that lost
unity at the march.
Held on the fifth anniversary of the
monumental Million Man March, the
Million Family March was the culmi
nation of years of planning by the
Nation of Islam. Unlike the Million
Man March and Million Woman
March, Monday’s event was designed
to be all inclusive, a time for attendees
‘We may have come in as
many, but I pray that God
will let us go out as one’
- Min. Louis Farrakhan
to reflect on the importance of families
and demand that family-friendly issues
are forefront on the nation’s agenda.
Early reports indicate that not quite
a million people attended the event.
Hundreds of thousands of people,
however, did cover the National Mall
for the all-day event. They were treated
to performances from popular music
artists and given a charge by well-
known speakers to vote and stand up
for important issues.
“Three weeks from now, we have to
march to the polls,” said Min. Ben
jamin Muhammad, who organized the
march. “We want family-friendly legis
lation. We want family-friendly public
policy.”
Before the march, local committees
from across the land had already come
up with a national agenda for the
march, which among other things calls
for an end to racial profiling and eco
nomic development for deprived areas.
Although many speakers warned
those in attendance to be wary of all
political candidates. Republicans took
the most beatings.
“We in this country are fired up
about being George ambushed on Nov.
7,” the Rev. A1 Sharpton said to thun
derous applause. Sharpton went on to
criticize Republicans for standing for
family values, yet doing little to help
families that need a helping hand.
Without mentioning a candidate
specifically, Sharpton told the crowd to
“put people in power that will give
power to the people.”
“Go home and stand against drug
addition....Stand against police brutal
ity. Get up off your knees....Stand,
stand, stand,” Sharpton told the crowd.
Many in the crowd came to the
march to tout issues of their own.
Dolores Scott of Baltimore carried '
a sign that demanded that Congress
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Labor secretary:
We have forgotten
our history’
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Herman
In a span of 10 hours, Alexis Herman went fronj
the spin room to the amen corner.
The U.S. secretary of labor
was one of many well-known
Democrats on hand for last
week’s second presidential
debate. After the debate, Her
man and others applauded Vice
President A1 Gore’s perfor
mance during the debate to a
captive audience of reporters.
The morning after the pres
idential showdown, Herman
shifted gears, leaving politics
behind, somewhat, to speak on
the topic of religious faith ’
before a small crowd at Knollwood Baptist Church.'
Herman said working for those who have been
left out of the economic mainstream and ensuring
that the nation’s workers are justly treated are call
ings.
“My work as secretary of labor, in many ways, is
my own personal ministry,” said Herman, who began
her professional career as a social worker for
Catholic Social Services in her native Mobile, Ala.
Herman was Catholic. Faith was an important
part of her upbringing, she said. It remains a vital
part of her today. When asked by a member of the
audience, Herman admitted that it is easy for her
faith and her duty as labor secretary to conflict.
But Herman said she has found a balance. She
said, for example, when her department has to sue
companies, her faith always leads her to try media
tion first.
“Fm going to go that extra mile to give you a
chance to do the right thing,” she said.
Herman’s appearance was made possible by
James Dunn, a visiting professor at Wake Forest
University Divinity School and an old friend of Her
man’s. Herman credited Dunn for getting her
through her confirmation and later a federal investi
gation of her.
“While she is firmly committed to labor, she is
more committed to people,” Dunn said of his friend
before her talk.
Herman has other local connections as well,
including her uncle, the Rev. R.L. Stenis, who is a
pastor in Salisbury.
The crowd was made up mostly of students and
staffers of the divinity school. The questions the
crowd asked Herman did lead her back into political
mode.
Herman was critical of Republicans on Capitol
Hill for holding up legislation that would increase the
minimum wage. She told the crowd that increasing
the minimum wage would be one of Gore’s top pri
orities if he’s elected president.
Herman defended the vice president’s position on
the Employment Nondiscrimination Act after a les
bian in the audience suggested that Gore does not
sound as passionate as he once did on the issue. The
act would make it a federal crime for employers to
fire someone or refuse to hire a person based on sex
ual orientation as well as other characteristics.
Herman served on Gore’s debate team, a group of
regular citizens and government types who worked
with the vice president to prepare him for the
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African Americans
scarce at Bush rally
BY CHERIS HODGES
THE CHRONICLE
Photo by Cheris Hodges
ine and Judy Carroll and Diana Perez and Pam Flowers
ipport for Texas Gov. George W. Bush,
The debates are over. Now the
hard part begins. Voters are left
with the images of the two candi
dates in the three debates to decide
whom to vote for.
While most people know whom
they are going to support and why,
others still have questions about the
men who would be president.
The questions on the minds of
some African-American voters deal
with the Republican candidate.
After the Wake Forest debate,
both presidential candidates held
rallies where supporters showed up
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Vice president rallies
supporters in Winston
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The Secret Service shuffled a
crowd of 100 or so like a deck of
cards at Smith Reynolds Airport last
week.
The crowd - some staunch sup
porters, others curiosity seekers -
came to watch Vice President A1
Gore arrive in Winston-Salem for
the second presidential debate.
People gathered near a gate^just
off the runway where Air Force Two
was set to taxi after landing. Only a
few seemed annoyed when a female
Secret Service agent instructed them
to move to an area that made the
See Gore on A4
Photo by Paul Collins
Vice President Al Gore leaves the platform to shake hands with peo
ple in the crowd at the rally for him after the presidential debate.
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