By Marc H. Morial “Common sense and intelligence can still determine what we do, even in this crazy environment. We’re not going to use our children as guinea pigs.” – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Of the many questions the deadly coronavirus pandemic has forced the nation to confront, the question of whether to reopen […]
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TBE#29 – Our Children’s Lives Are Too Precious To Risk Reopening Schools Without A Safety Plan
Greater Baltimore Urban League (Courtesy Image/Logo) To Be Equal #29 July 16, 2020 Our Children’s Lives Are Too Precious To Risk Reopening Schools Without A Safety Plan Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “Common sense and intelligence can still determine what we do, even in this crazy environment. We’re not going to […]
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TBE#28 – Sports Have the Potential to Help Unite Us; Racial Slurs that Divide Us Must Go
To Be Equal #28 July 9, 2020 Sports Have the Potential to Help Unite Us; Racial Slurs that Divide Us Must Go Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “Racism runs rampant in towns and cities neighboring large Indigenous populations. I’ve been told to ‘go back to the reservation’ and asked by white […]
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TBE#23 – Transformational Change Needed to Cure the Virus of Racism Infecting Local Police
To Be Equal #23 June 5, 2020 Transformational Change Needed to Cure the Virus of Racism Infecting Local Police National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “The tragic and senseless loss of Black lives to police-involved violence over the last several years […]
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A Message to the President: Invest in America
Marc H. Morial As the major-party conventions conclude and the general election season begins in earnest, the National Urban League has a message for the next president, whoever he or she might be: invest in America. When Europe found itself in physical and economic ruin after World War II, the United States invested $13 billion […]
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What Will 2016 Usher In?
By Marc H. Morial “Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory […]
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Stop the War on Young Black Men
Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League. “Never did we think we would be planning a funeral, we were waiting on his first day of school. They robbed us of that.” Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown. “In too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local […]
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Unfinished Business: 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Marc H. Morial “The purpose of the law is simple…those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling booths, in the classrooms, in the factories, and in hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, and other places that provide service to the public.” – President Lyndon B. Johnson, July 2, 1964. July 2 […]
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To Be Equal
“Affluent Americans would do quite well. But for tens of millions of others, the Ryan plan is a path to more adversity.” Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities In the same week that we marked the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and learned that 7.1 […]
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To Be Equal
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community … Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” Cesar Chavez While it is commonly thought that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was by, of, […]
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The Great Divide of Income Inequality
“Income inequality” has become the political buzzword of 2014. Most recently, in his State of the Union address this week President Obama made it a central theme of his second term. Both progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans in Congress are making the issue a focus of this year’s mid-term elections, and leading voices for human […]
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To Be Equal: The Life and Legacy of Amiri Baraka
“Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.” —Amiri Baraka With the Jan. 9 passing of the prolific poet, playwright, essayist, and critic Amiri Baraka, one of the literary giants of the 20th century was called home. Along with offering condolences to his wife, children and family, we remember the 79-year-old […]
