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The Next Attorney General Must Enforce Civil Rights Laws. William Barr Won’t.

Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed...

Early Voting and Expanded Absentee Voting are Key to Fair Elections

“Georgia elections officials deployed a known strategy of voter suppression: closing and relocating polling places. Despite projections of record turnout, elections officials closed or...

Conference 2018: The Urban League Movement is Ready to Save Our Cities and Power the Digital Revolution

"Thank you for fighting for long-overdue reforms to the justice system. Thank you for helping people get good jobs and better education. Thank you...

The Passing of Civil Rights Legend John Mack is a Deeply-Felt Loss to the Urban League Movement

“John understood that to truly change hearts and minds in the LAPD, he had to go to work on the inside. And because he...

Supreme Court Appointment Must Not Be Made Under a Cloud of Distrust

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,...

Advice to Graduates: Pursue a PhD in Common Sense

“Education must not simply teach work. It must teach life.” – W.E.B. DuBois This time of year brings great pride and congratulations for graduates at...

Black Entertainment Trailblazer: The Legacy of Debra Lee

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” — Shirley Chisholm, African-American Politician & Activist, November 30, 1924...

Black Panther is the Superhero – and Heroines – We Deserve

“The film serves as a breath of fresh intellectual air, especially amid today’s sociopolitical climate. It is the power of representation in its best...

Affirmative Action: Dissecting Rhetoric From Reality

“You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you...

 Why the Paris Accord is Important for Black America

"We are not faced with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather one complex crisis which is both social and...

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