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Tens of thousands of Central Texans have lost their jobs in the month since the coronavirus public health crisis began, according to statistics from Workforce Solutions Capital Area, putting many in a position to ask for help for the first time.
With school buildings closed for the rest of the academic year due to the coronavirus crisis, the Urban League of Greater Cleveland Guild (Cleveland, OH) is “Keeping their Promise” to help others by handing out laptops to Wade Park Elementary School students who couldn’t participate in their online classes without them.
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NEW YORK (July 15, 2021) – The COVID-19 pandemic not only unmasked the stark racial inequities in the nation’s economic, health care and public safety status quo..
As we pass the halfway point for taking this year's census, nearly two out of every five U.S. households have yet to respond to the survey, stoking fears that billions of federal dollars could be left on the table — dollars that fund crucial services including during the pandemic.
A Father’s Day march with a focus on justice was held Sunday in Center City. The march started at the Octavius Catto monument on purpose. Following the Civil War, Catto was one of Philadelphia’s most prominent civil rights activists — rights that this group says they’re continuing to fight for more than a century and a half later.
Washington, D.C. (September 21, 2021) –National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial issued the following statement in response to the Department of Justice’s new policy limits on chokeholds and no-knock entries:
