Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., was working as a youth pastor of a Harlem church when it hosted a Louis Farrakhan town hall meeting for planning his Million Man March in 1995.
, including the Rev. Benjamin Chavis and radio host Bob Laws. Attendees reportedly included the late Black nationalist Queen Mother Moore and the late Black Panther and Nation of Islam leader Khalid Muhammad.
According to the report,"The attraction of the night was none other than Farrakhan, who electrified the crowd as he outlined the activities and goals of the March. Explaining how America is shifting to the ‘conservative right, not the righteous right,’ the Muslim leader said that the March will gain for the Black man, respect and advancement in the world by uniting themselves into a brotherhood to make demands on America for what is theirs.
Fox News Digital previously reported that the Abyssinian church also hosted Black supremacist Leonard Jeffries while Warnock was employed at the church.At the time of his first appearance at the Abyssinian church in 1991, Leonard Jeffries was embroiled in a legal battle to retain his position as the Black studies department chair at City University of New York .
The AJC report said Jeffries "preaches Jew-hatred like a religion" and claimed that he organized a 1990 conference for Black teachers that featured Black nationalist and antisemitic rhetoric and reading materials. Jeffries appeared at the Abyssinian church again in February 1992, when Warnock was youth pastor, giving a speech about systemic racism and White-on-Black crime after a White police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of Black teenager Phillip Pannell, Newsday reported at the time.In 1994, he was quoted by the New York Times as comparing Jewish White people to"skunks" who"stunk up everything.
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