Given those broad responsibilities, African-Americans need to “accept responsibility to build our own communities,” Farrakhan, 76, said in a speech commemorating the 14th anniversary of the Million Man March.

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Farrakhan has recently had a strong presence at events addressing a rise in youth violence.

Sunday’s speech was billed as a plan to focus on reducing crime. Farrakhan didn’t lay out details in his 2 1/2-hour address, but said members of the Nation of Islam have shown a blueprint for helping people repair their lives. The organization has long focused efforts on recruiting in prisons by encouraging inmates to study the movement’s teachings.

“They’re going to prisons and they make a man and a woman whole, the prostitute gets cleaned up, the drug addict gets changed,” he said. “You see a model in Muslims in the Nation of Islam when our people come into the mosque toxic and then are made useful.”