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Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, National Bar Association, and National Urban League Announce Partnership to Protect Voters

NASHVILLE, TN (July 31, 2026) The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Bar Association, and the National Urban League today announced a landmark partnership to strengthen voter protection efforts and expand access to the ballot ahead of the November 2026 Midterm Elections.

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Watch the State of the Urban League Address

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National Urban League: Court Ruling on Digital Equity Act Continues Judicial Assault On Racial Justice

NEW YORK (July 17, 2026) — National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial issued the following statement in response to a U.S. district court ruling on the Digital Equity Act:

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National Urban League Urges Congress to Build on Bipartisan 21st Century Road to Housing Act

NEW YORK (July 14, 2026) -- While commending members for the bipartisan passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the National Urban League today asked Congress to build a national housing agenda that makes housing affordable, accessible, fairly financed, and wealth-building for working families and communities of color.

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Supreme Court Affirms What Leading Civil Rights Organizations Have Always Known: Children Born Here are U.S. Citizens

 

A coalition of leading civil rights organizations issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision fully affirming the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment:

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National Urban League and National Baptist Convention USA Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand "Reclaim Your Vote" Campaign

ST. LOUIS, MO (June 22, 2026) — The National Urban League and the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. today announced a landmark partnership to strengthen civic engagement and expand voter mobilization efforts ahead of the 2026 election cycle.

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National Urban League Seeks to "Rebuild Trust" with NCAA Following "Slavery Exception" Argument

NEW YORK (June 18, 2026) — National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial has requested a meeting with the NCAA’s Board of Governors to “rebuild trust and accountability” in the wake of the organization’s comparison of college athletes to prison labor under the Thirteenth Amendment’s “slavery exception.”

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On Behalf on Memphis Urban League, LDF Joins Lawsuit Challenging Discriminitory Tennessee Congressional Map

Filing Urges Court to Immediately Suspend the New Map for Upcoming Elections

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National Urban League Mourns the Passing of Barney Frank

NEW YORK (May 20, 2026) — National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial issued the following statement on the passing of former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank:

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A Power Grab That Silences Black Voters

“For it is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness. The wounds and the weaknesses, the outward walls and the inward scars which diminish achievement are the work of American society. We must all now help to end them--help to end them through expanding programs already devised and through new ones to search out and forever end the special handicaps of those who are black in a Nation that happens to be mostly white.” – President Lyndon B. Johnson, on signing the Voting Rights Act

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