Strategy Summit Lists Goals for Blacks
Organizers of last month’s “Million Man March” issued a National Strategic Action Agenda on Saturday that calls for creating an economic development trust, a national health plan and an international black communications network, among other ambitious goals.
At a news conference that was part religious revival, former NAACP leader Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan outlined how they hope to maintain the momentum from the rally of black men.
The nine-point agenda, adopted at the end of the fifth annual National African American Leadership Summit, also calls for a national black political convention in 1996, a moratorium on the death penalty, statehood for the District of Columbia and financial reparations to blacks for the injustice of slavery.
Much of the two-page agenda was general, with no costs specified or discussion of how such ideas could be made reality.
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