He earned his Liberal Arts Degree at Cheyney State College in 1969 and his Master s Degree in City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and the recipient of numerous wards. The sounds you heard were reproductions of guns shots, forty one to be exact. They represent the number of rounds or bullets fired at Amadou Diallo by four white New York City Police officers, nineteen of which hit him puncturing his body and allowing his blood and vital life force to ooze out in the vestibule of his apartment building that fateful night in New York. Comparing The MMM With The MFM I suppose it is inevitable that folks would compare the recent Million Family March with its predecessor the Million Man March.
Comparisons are always subjective.
I attended both and for me there were some very obvious differences. First of all, the whites treated the Million Family March much differently than they did the MMM. . Our Own Causes Charity begins at home. As Africans In America we have always been a generous, giving and sharing people even when we did not have much in the way of material substance. Sharing is the African way.