Millions More Movement

Echoing the Million Man March of a decade ago, a huge crowd gathered on the National Mall on Saturday to hear a star roster of black activists and artists demand social and economic equality and call for personal responsibility. As at the event of October 1995, leaders and participants hoped it would lead to a generation of action.

Echoing the Million Man March of a decade ago, a huge crowd gathered on the National Mall on Saturday to hear a star roster of black activists and artists demand social and economic equality and call for personal responsibility. As at the event of October 1995, leaders and participants hoped it would lead to a generation of action.

The epiphany came to P. Jesus Patrick a decade ago in Washington as he stood shoulder to shoulder amid a sea of black men at the Million Man March. He was not the only young black man whose father had chosen drugs over family. He was not the only one who had dabbled in drug dealing and car thievery, not the only one who felt lost in a life riddled with struggle. And men like him who wanted to change their lives surrounded him.