Ben Chavis joins the Nation of Islam.

The Christian Century | March 12, 1997 | Copyright

Benjamin Chavis, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a former leader of the denomination's Commission for Racial Justice, says he has joined the Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan. "l am affirming that the God who called me into the Christian church is the same God who is calling me into the Nation of Islam," Chavis said February 23 in Chicago.

Since leaving his position as executive director of the NAACP under a cloud of controversy in August 1994, Chavis has been a key Farrakhan aide, helping to organize the 1995 Million Man March in ...

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