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Millions More Movement

Carlee Gordon
TELC 202.101: The Media Culture
Professor Jennifer J. Longmire
The Media Coverage on the Millions More Movement

The millions more movement was expected to have an agenda that will transform a movement and impact change in the Black community over the coming years is what organizers of the Millions More Movement on the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March. I did not attend but tried to find time to watch it on television. Through my search I realized only a selected few were actually presenting large segments of the march. As critical as the event was because of the suffering of the many poor black people in New Orleans the Millions More Movement was not promoted to the full extent. Many of my friends didn't even know it was going on. A pamphlet I had actually got from your class was the only notice had before the actual day of the Millions More Movement.
The few channels that actually showed large portions of the Millions More Movement, described it as a sort of "rally" instead of an historical event as planned by the organizers of the Millions More Movement. The issues that were campaigned during Millions More Movement were unity among African-Americans and other people of color; spiritual and ethical grounding; family strengthening; education; economic development; housing; political power; reparations; criminal justice; health care and healthy living; artistic and cultural development; anti-war and peace in Black neighborhoods. These message alone were hardly exposed on television news cast, instead it seemed as though there was just a lot of African Americans Gathered to complain very contrary to, "We're not talking about something that we can get from the government. We're talking about what we have to do in our own communities." stated by Minister Farrakhan.
There was also the message that came across from Minister Farrakhan through the media that with out the disaster of New Orleans...

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