On October 17, 2020, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March on Washington, Dr. Natalie Hopkinson of Howard University published an op-ed in the New York Times about the women who worked behind the scenes. D.C. Mayor Marion Barry’s fourth wife, Cora Masters Barry, who was interviewed for the piece, was instrumental in the success of the event.
The subtitle of the op-ed is straightforward: “Behind every great feat in the public record lies an untold story of the unsung foot soldiers.” Less straightforward, however, is the paper’s omission of Farrakhan’s virulent anti-Semitism.
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