Marc H. Morial
President & CEO, National Urban League
A new report from the Alliance for Entrepreneurial Equity finds that Black business owners still face barriers that keep them from thriving, such as lack of access to capital.
Twenty-five years later, the gun industry’s greed and elected leaders’ cowardice continue to prevail, the head of the National Urban League writes.
Tennessee State University has been hit the worst, having been underfunded by $2.1 billion over 30 years. Chicago State University’s funding has declined by 46% over the last quarter-century.
Most women who seek abortions are women of color, especially Black women. Restricting access to mifepristone, as a case now before the Supreme Court seeks to do, would worsen racial health disparities.
Republicans killed a bipartisan border deal because they want to create a migrant crisis, not solve one.
Thieves who stole a statue of baseball trailblazer Jackie Robinson attacked the mission of a Wichita, Kansas, youth baseball league, which aims to inspire, educate and create opportunity for children in underserved neighborhoods.
Lawyers for a Donald Trump co-defendant in the Georgia election racketeering case are furthering Trump’s goal of demonizing his adversaries and portraying himself as a victim.
If her childhood was painful because of racism, she has been all too eager to as a politician to embrace the white supremacist ideology that made it painful, Marc Morial writes.
A new campaign will mobilize support for federal legislation, including the Freedom to Vote Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and other measures, the head of the National Urban League writes.