By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “The exorbitant rates charged to the Secret Service and agents’ frequent stays at Trump-owned properties raise significant concerns about the former President’s self-dealing and may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump’s struggling businesses.” House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney. […]
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TBE 40 – “Dog Whistle” Rhetoric Is Giving Way To Tuberville & Greene’s Overt Racism
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “I’ve heard racists say all kinds of things. I’ve heard them say that Black people are criminals, and I’ve heard them say that reparations are reverse racism. But it takes a true racism innovator to combine both ideas at the same time.” – Trevor Noah […]
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TBE#31 – Nichelle Nichols’ Legacy: “Out Of This Madness, Uhura Appeared”
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “Everybody, come quick, come quick; there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!” — Whoopi Goldberg Fed up with racist insults on set and longing to make her way as a Broadway musical star, Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols already had given […]
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To Be Equal #30 – NBA Great Bill Russell Paved the Way for Two Generations of Social Activist Athletes
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “Racism cannot just be shaken out of the fabric of society because, like dust from a rug, it dissipates into the air for a bit and then settles right back where it was, growing thicker with time. Police reform is a start, but it is […]
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TBE#29 – #WeAreBG: Hope Surges For The Release Of WNBA Star Brittney Griner
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “Please continue to pray for my family and all the other families of the wrongfully detained, as our pain remains active until our loved ones are brought home. Let’s continue to use our voices to speak the names of all the wrongfully detained Americans and […]
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TBE#26 – Essence Festival: A Birthday Party That Has Grown Into A National Cultural Touchstone
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “It’s within our DNA as black women, and some of it is within the historical evolution of who we are as black women, where we were trained and groomed to give so much of ourselves. Essence was specifically created to be a platform where we […]
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To Be Equal: Abortion Bans Are Part Of A Larger Agenda To Roll Back Advances In Racial Justice And Women’s Rights
By Marc H. Morial President and CEONational Urban League “At a time when open racism was becoming unfashionable, these politicians needed a more high-minded issue, one that would not compel them to surrender their fundamental political orientation. And of course. the beauty of defending a fetus is that the fetus demands nothing in return — housing, […]
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TBE#11 – Women’s History Month Sees Historic Progress For Black Women In America, But Work Remains To Achieve Full Equality
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “From the first settlers who came to our shores, from the first American Indian families who befriended them, men and women have worked together to build this nation. Too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, […]
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TBE#48 – The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 66 years ago this week, roused people across the nation to demand equal rights
To Be Equal #48 Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of […]
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TBE#47 – Elevation of Minority Business Development Agency to permanent status represents an unprecedented commitment to addressing historic economic inequities
By Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “President Biden has made clear his commitment to not just rebuilding to how things were before COVID-19, but to building back better and more equitably. The Minority Business Development Agency is ready to step into this historic moment and build on its success – because […]
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To Be Equal#44 – Reform The Filibuster And End The Assault On Voting Rights Now
To Be Equal #44 Reform The Filibuster And End The Assault On Voting Rights Now By Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “It’s not that the filibuster itself is inherently racist, but it has been the favorite tool of racists. It is the preferred choice of Southern conservatives, in whatever era and […]
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TBE#38 – Gymnasts’ demand for justice is a powerful display of courage and grace
National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) To Be Equal #38 September 23, 2021 Gymnasts’ Demand For Justice Is A Powerful Display Of Courage And Grace By Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “I sit before you today to raise my voice so that no little girl must […]