By Hugh B. Price President National Urban League High stakes standardized tests, like the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the SAT, fail[…]
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The Police and Political Firestorm in New Jersey
By Hugh B. Price President National Urban League Black Americans have long learned to live with their deeply complex relationship[…]
Read moreThe New Census Data: Welcome To The Club
By Hugh B. Price President National Urban League New figures from the U.S. Census show that what has long[…]
Read moreReform Unjust Drug Laws
By Hugh B. Price President National Urban League A generation ago, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller got a bright[…]
Read moreTime to Stop Police Racial Profiling
By Hugh B. Price President National Urban League With a new, conservative administration in office, it's once again become fashionable[…]
Read morePutting Faith To Work
It goes without saying that churches and faith-based organizations of all kinds have for decades played a vital role in[…]
Read moreClosing the Opportunity Gap
With all due respect to the President’s tax initiative, there were two other developments on the economic news front last[…]
Read moreGive The Working Poor A Break
Does it make sense to make it more difficult for America’s working poor families—who can barely make ends meet as[…]
Read moreKen Burns’ “Jazz:” Crossing Boundaries of Possibility
By Lee A. Daniels Director of Publications National Urban League (Guest Columnist) As someone who's been interested in jazz since[…]
Read moreMeasuring John Ashcroft
By Hugh B. Price President National Urban League Many Americans, undoubtedly, won't think to connect the name of the new[…]
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