HOLLYWOOD STREET KING EXCLUSIVE
COMMEMORATING THE ANNIVERSARY OF
THE MILLION MAN MARCH

RUSSELL SIMMONS and JACKY JASPER KICK-IT, AFTER CALLING TRUCE

In one of his best interviews to date, Jacky Jasper speaks during a candid conversation with rap music mogul, Russell ‘Uncle Russ’ Simmons.

The man behind ‘Phat Farm’ opens up with Jacky, regarding the Def Jam founder’s dark childhood, and how he made a 360 from his past to his present succe$$ful and lengthy career. During the discussion, Simmons lyrically bows-down and credits The Nation of Islam for standing by him, as a youth living in the hood. Like most black men, he’s encountered racism and segregation first-hand. I advise all my readers to listen and learn from the words of the this wise man we – all know as Russell Simmons.

Take a listen to today’s episode, “The Million Man March Anniversary”…

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October 16th 2009 will mark the 14th annual “Million Man March”, and with the grandiose event just a day away, I had the great opportunity to speak with Captain Dennis Muhammad, of The Nation of Islam – a man who was there from the very get go of not only the first “Million Man March”, but also during the beginning stages of its preparations.

The idea of the “Million Man March” was born back in 1994, after The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a speech at the 369th Armory in Harlem, New York. “About 12,000 packed the armory, and we had to turn about 12,000 to 15,000 men away because we couldn’t hold them,” said Dennis Muhammad. “It was that day that he (Minister Farrakhan) said to those men that he would like to take a million men to Washington, D.C.”

The mission behind the “Million Man March” movement is aimed at publicly turning the negative stereotypes of African American men into a positive outlook on the race, as a whole. “The Minister felt that the negative portrayal of black youth was being set-up for black destruction, by the United States Government,” said Dennis Muhammad. “And so, he felt he wanted to show the world that black men can come together in a positive way.” And that’s exactly what Minister Louis Farrakhan and his followers achieved. “If somebody would have told me 14-years-ago, that I would live to see the day that black men, in the numbers that attended the march, would be assembled together, and there would be no shooting, no looting, no tooting, no getting high, not one argument, I would say – man not in my lifetime,” said Dennis Muhammad. “But on October 16th 1995, I witnessed the greatest event of my lifetime – the assembly of that number of men marching in Washington, D.C.” (more…)