Activists commemorate 20th anniversary of Million Man March

Activists took to the National Mall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C, on Saturday. In 1995, hundreds of thousands of black men gathered to raise awareness about social and economic inequality.

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, who led the first march, called for an anniversary reprise to include other marginalized groups under the theme "Justice or Else," MSNBC reports. The event comes after the Black Lives Matter movement picked up steam over the past year in protesting police brutality against unarmed black people, including Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray.

"It was a very special moment in my life, it was a moment that actually changed my life, so my main goal is to try to expose young people to that same thing," said Victorious Hall, a 2015 attendee who recalled attending the original event as a 13-year-old.

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