By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
[Editor’s note: The following article is an excerpt taken from a keynote address by Minister Farrakhan delivered July 8, 2004 at the United Methodist Church in Chicago, Illinois during the National Black United Front’s convention celebrating its 25th anniversary.
We are 50 years from Brown v. Board of Education. While Blacks in the Civil Rights Movement cheer that we’ve come 50 years, there is sadness because, in 50 years, nothing has really changed. We’re 40 years from the Voting Rights Act and civil rights that allowed us to go here and go there, yet we are getting further and further behind socially, economically and otherwise.