Empowerment: The Final Frontier of African-American Development in the United States
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Years ago, the grandfather of Time Warner Chairman Dick Parsons[…]
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War on Crime: New FBI Statistics Suggest Federal Government Has Let Homeland Security Overshadow Efforts to Keep Rates Down
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League In April, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales referred to the[…]
Read moreIllegal Immigration: Boost Mexican Economy to Slow Flow Over Border
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Tentative results are in from the recent down-to-the-wire election in[…]
Read more‘Civic Tithing’: You Don’t Need to Be a Warren Buffett to Effect Change
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Recently, the nation’s wealthiest man, Warren Buffett, gave the philanthropic[…]
Read moreTransforming Prison Culture: Producing Productive Citizens Not Hardened Criminals
What happens behind bars in the jails and prisons of this nation doesn't stay there. It trickles out into the[…]
Read moreHome Buyers Beware: New Study Confirms Many Blacks Still Steered Toward High-Rate Mortgage Loans
By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League A recent study by the Durham, N.C.-based Center for Responsible[…]
Read moreCombating Rising Foreclosures Rates for African Americans; National Urban League and Homeownership Preservation Foundation Join Forces
Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League There is no doubt that economic empowerment is the new civil[…]
Read moreCongress Enacts Cruel Budget Bill and Places Our Most Vulnerable Citizens at Risk
National Urban League President Marc H. Morial stated that House passage of the FY2006 Budget Reconciliation bill by a narrow[…]
Read moreCivil Rights Leaders Meet with Attorney General Gonzales on Civil Rights Issues of Importance to All Americans
On February 8, a diverse group of prominent civil rights leaders met with U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to discuss[…]
Read moreRebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast:
By: Marc H. Morial President and Chief Executive National Urban League Nearly five months after the ravage of Hurricane Katrina,[…]
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