NUL in the News

UL Construction Career Academy Prepares Students for Jobs in Construction

Los Angeles Urban League’s (Los Angeles, CA) Construction Career Academy (CCA) held its first class of the new year this past week with a full house of diverse men and women of all ages looking to get into a construction trade.  CCA and many other workforce development programs are trying to fill employment gaps as labor shortages continue to plague the construction industry.

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UL New Sports and Learning Complex in Need of Corporate Sponsors

 Fundraising for the track and field complex in west Louisville is approaching the finish line, but it's in need of a final push.

The Louisville Urban League (Louisville, KY) has raised $44 million of the $50 million cost for construction. President Sadiqa Reynolds said she also wants to raise an additional $5 million to help support the facility's operating costs.

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Catch Highlights From the Recent Black Census Roundtable

We hosted diverse voices in Washington, D.C. this week to exchange strategies for making sure Black communities are fully counted in the 2020 Census. Catch the highlights and do your part to Make Black Count!

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Lyft Shows How to Get a Free Ride to Vote in 2020 Elections

The ride sharing program Lyft is providing free and discounted rides to polls for the primary and general election season for voting in 2020 in the USA.

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At ‘Emergency’ Summit, Congressional Black Caucus Calls for Trump’s Defeat

WASHINGTON — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) laid out its agenda for the year last week at an “emergency summit” at the U.S. Capitol.

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We Have To Do Something About the Black Student Debt Crisis: Center for Responsible Lending

According to the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), 70% of the people who graduated from college in 2016 have student loan debt with an average of $30,000...

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At ‘Emergency’ Summit', Congressional Black Caucus Calls for Trump’s Defeat

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) laid out their agenda for the year Tuesday at an “emergency summit” at the U.S. Capitol.

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Kansas, Other States Consider Banning Bias Based on Hairstyles

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Black female legislators in two predominantly white Midwestern states urged their Republican colleagues Tuesday to join a national push to outlaw discrimination based on hairstyles such as braids and dreadlocks.

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‘You are the medicine,’ Urban League Leader Tells MLK Day Service in Morristown

With racism on the rise and economic disparity widening, it’s time to stand up and be counted–at the ballot box and in this year’s U.S. Census, the CEO of the National Urban League told a Martin Luther King Day service in Morristown.

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Upon MLK Holiday Week, Struggle Against Violence, for Economic Justice, and Racial Equality Undermines Black Leadership

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As America prepares to pause on Monday, January 20, to commemorate and reflect on the life and principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the three most essential aspects of the revered civil rights leader’s work – economic justice, racial equality and strategic non-violence – remain among the foremost civil rights issues across America.

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