The NYC one dissolved because after trying to bring Black women's orgs into them, info came out tying some of their leadership to Farrakhan, and then the existing white leadership didn't want to associate with those groups, etc. Etc., and the marches just fizzled (my memory is probably a little fuzzy on the details).
Farrakhan? Yeah. He's a weirdo. Nation of Islam is his joint, and he's pretty famously anti-Semitic. Now, some of the women's groups pointed out that they felt he was still due some respect from his earlier activism, when he was one of the few Black leaders with neighborhood ties who was doing street level work with his organization, but (IMO) he's long descended into crankdom. Plus, white women demanding Black women denounce a Black man is a fraught subject.
The NYC one dissolved because after trying to bring Black women's orgs into them, info came out tying some of their leadership to Farrakhan, and then the existing white leadership didn't want to associate with those groups, etc. Etc., and the marches just fizzled (my memory is probably a little fuzzy on the details).
Is it bad whatever that is?
Farrakhan? Yeah. He's a weirdo. Nation of Islam is his joint, and he's pretty famously anti-Semitic. Now, some of the women's groups pointed out that they felt he was still due some respect from his earlier activism, when he was one of the few Black leaders with neighborhood ties who was doing street level work with his organization, but (IMO) he's long descended into crankdom. Plus, white women demanding Black women denounce a Black man is a fraught subject.
And they still did it and were endorsed by 9 separate rabbis, And it still wasn't enough to prevent schism by chuddy folks
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/On-Womens-March-Sarsour-rejects-Farrakhans-antisemitism-defends-BDS-578056
Basically like black chuds
He was the head of the Nation of Islam, and a huge anti Semite.