The March

Thompson! I know you say some things are hard to remember. Today, I’m going to remind you of us leaving Atlanta by car on October 15, 1995, heading northbound to DC for the Million Man March as representatives of the Afromation Movement. Your beautiful Black Thompson younger brothers were converging on DC from the west. We arrived at around 3am, went and checked on my brother-n-law and your fellow Clark alumni Sean Weaver up near Rock Creek Park. He had his soldier boots on. Told us tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, were amassing to march down from Howard University. We hugged brother Sean a drove down to the National Mall, where we found a parking spot on Maryland Ave, SW right in front of the FAA HQ Bldg. And what did we see when hopped out the car? Yep, a 6’ table just sitting there. What did we do next? We commandeered it, popped open the trunk, grabbed all the Afromation book cases we could, humped about three blocks and set up shop. What was our mission. To stand in solidarity with our fellow Black brothers from across the nation. What was our contribution? We gave away knowledge in the form of copies of Afromation: 366 Days of American History. To be cont’d…

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