The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Ms. Fredrica Bey, executive director of Women In Support Of the Million Man March, Inc. (WISOMMM)Newark, NJ --The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan will make 2 public appearances in Newark, New Jersey on May 4 and 5, 2012 to address the egregious Department of Justice (DOJ) civil complaint recently leveled against Women In Support Of the Million Man March, Inc. (WISOMMM) and Ms. Fredrica Bey, the organization’s Executive Director.

The Minister’s appearances are designed specifically to raise money for WISOMMM’s Legal Defense Fund, so that the organization may resolve the issues associated with the complaint, and continue to offer its outstanding educational services and life-affirming community programs to the children, families, and residents of Newark.

In addition to the Minister’s appearances, The Nation of Islam (The Nation) will debut, for the first time outside of its own facilities, The Nation Of Islam Historic Exhibit which chronicles the rise of The Nation Of Islam from 1930 to present day. The Exhibit will open on Thursday May 3, 2012.

THE FUNDRAISING EVENT SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:

THURSDAY, MAY 3
Debut of the Nation Of Islam Historic Exhibit
WISOMMMM African Cultural Center
15 James Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Open 12 noon to 8PM
Free admission for children up to age 12
Senior Citizens and Students with ID $7.00
General Admission $10.00

FRIDAY, MAY 4
Nation Of Islam Historic Exhibit
WISOMMMM African Cultural Center
15 James Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Open 9 AM to 1 PM
See Thursday for cost of admission

Private VIP Reception Welcoming
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
For more information regarding attendance
for this special event, call 973-353-9888

SATURDAY, MAY 5
Public Address by:
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
WISOMMMM Sanctuary Building
23-25 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Doors Open 1PM
Public Address begins 3PM
General Admission $100.00

To purchase tickets for any of the events and/or make a contribution to WISOMMM call (973) 353-9888 or go to www.wisommm.com and click on Legal Defense Fund.

According to Minister Farrakhan, "The attack on WISOMMM is an attack on me, the Nation of Islam, and the black community at large." As such, he has taken a personal interest in supporting the Women that worked so vigorously to support him and sent more than 50,000 black men to the historic 1995 Million Man March, themed "A Day of Atonement". The Minister’s call attracted nearly 2,000,000 attendees.

Today, he calls for the public's continued support of his efforts and their unwavering financial, moral, and spiritual support to ward off this attack on WISOMMM. "This crisis calls for a national response in support of this vital organization. The world must see that we are united against hostile campaigns that threaten the future of our children, families, and community institutions."

No reflection on the life of Mike Wallace would be complete without discussing his interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the most Honorable Elijah Muhammad back in 1996.

This interview happend not long after the historic Million Man March and the Minister's World Friendship Tour. It was a wonderful interview and Mr. Wallace, who is known for being tough and fair, was received by the Minister with that same toughness and fairness as he answered with passion and clarity. We would say, the Minister was even more tough and more fair that Mr. Wallace.

No doubt, this interview is a classic one. During the discussion of corruption:

Mike Wallace: “You’d go to Nigeria? If it’s not the most corrupt Nation in Africa, it could be the most corrupt Nation in the world.”

Louis Farrakhan: “Oh, now Mr. Wallace.

Mike Wallace adjusted himself in his seat: “It is the most corrupt nation that I have ever covered. I have been there 25 years ago and I have been there as recently as last year.”

I guess he thought he had the Minister. Ha! The Minister first paints a clear picture for Mike about the youthfulness of Nigeria’s government and then puts a mirror to Wallace's face as he reminds Mike that America is guilty of corruption. I mean really. How are you going to tell the child of former slaves, captured Africans, about corruption somewhere else.

The Minister says:

You are not in a moral position to tell anyone how corrupt they are. You should be quiet!... . But, America should keep her mouth shut wherever there is a corrupt regime, as much hell as America has raised on the Earth.

Has Nigeria dropped an atomic bomb and killed people in, in Hiroshima, in Nagasaki? Have they killed off millions of Native Americans? How dare you put yourself in that position as a moral judge! I think you should keep quiet.

After Mike listened to the Minister, he then asked, “Can you think of a more corrupt country?”

“I’m living in one,” said the Minister.

Mr. Wallace also did a feature of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of the most Honorable Elijah Muhammad entitled: The Hate that Hate Produced. Wallace revisited that report during the feature on Min. Farrakhan.

Watch some of the interview here. 

During  a wonderful, powerful and insightful talk to college students, faculty, clergy and supporters in Grand Rapids, MI on March 1, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan highlighted how the entertainment industry promotes a decadent lifestyle that pulls our youth out of the church into the world and it corrupts our youth destroying many lives in the process.

“So to put yourself in front of the television all day long looking at stupidity; put the music on ‘come on baby, come on honey, shake that booty.’ Is this what we teach our little girls? Is this what we see on television from the beautiful artist and entertainers?  They grow up in the church then they are called out of the church to the world and the world corrupts them and spits them out.”

Then, Min. Farrakhan mentioned Whitney Houston.

“Our beloved sister Whitney Houston is a very pure soul, a beautiful woman; singing in the church, songs of praise. Did you see her homegoing? You did? Did you see the gentleman that became like her music master, saying that somebody like that, that’s the whole package, you with a lifetime for somebody like that to come along. Come along for what?”

The Minister was referring to Clive Davis, chief creative officer of Sony Music who is often referred to as Houston’s mentor, advisor and friend. Here’s more of that eulogy from Davis:

“You wait for a voice like that for a lifetime.  You wait for a face like that, a smile like that, a presence like that for a lifetime. And when one person embodies it all, well it takes your breath away.  That’s the way I felt in 1983 when in the middle of your act at Sweetwater’s, Cissy, your daughter stepped forward and shattered me with her version of “Greatest Love Of All.”  And that night we connected and then we connected with each other every night thereafter for the rest of her life.”

Read the entire eulogy here: 

The Minister continued: “When you draw the talent into the world. 'I am gonna make you famous and rich'…by the time you get finished you owe the record company and to make money you go out on the road to make money…you're singing every night, giving your heart and soul, tired, and then the dope man comes next to you...Our artist are corrupted and they are giving to the world a decadent culture coming out of America.”

This excerpt is from a lecture, entitled Duty, Responsibility and The Need of Self-Sufficiency,” held at Fountain Street Church, March 1, 2012.