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January Jobs Number Shows The Economy Is Still At Risk

Marc Morial, The National Urban League CEO and former mayor of New Orleans, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss his reaction to the January jobs report and what it says about the state of the economy. To watch the interview Click Here.

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New Jersey Addresses Inequities That Fueled Coronavirus Spread

By Jarrad Henderson, USA TodayNew Jersey leaders try to address the inequities that allowed COVID-19 to hit parts of Essex County harder than communities that have more whites.

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Police Response To Violent DC Mob Criticized, Compared To Crackdown On BLM Protests

Thousands of people took to the streets last summer to peacefully protest police brutality. Law enforcement often clashed with demonstrators.

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Civil Rights Groups Lay Out Priorities For Biden’s Justice Department

By Nolan D. McCaskill, Politico 

Leaders of several civil rights groups laid out their recommendations on Tuesday for the type of attorney general President-elect Joe Biden should nominate to head the Justice Department.

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Civil Rights Leaders Urge Biden to Pick Black Attorney General Nominee

By Elizabeth Crisp, Newsweek

Several prominent civil rights leaders are urging President-elect Joe Biden to nominate a Black person to be his attorney general, citing pressing issues like voting rights, police violence and prison concerns that disproportionately have affected the Black community.

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Nearly 20 Dozen Groups Demand Biden Cancel All Federal Student Debt on Day One by Executive Order

More than 235 nonprofit and community organizations on Wednesday sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, urging them to "use executive authority to cancel federal student debt on day one of their administration."

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Former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial says Mayor Cantrell's Strong Stance on Covid Justified

"It's very difficult to do this city by city... state by state. What's been lacking is a national plan. We have to get control of the pandemic."

 

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‘We Will Resist Suppression’: Philadelphia Community Leaders Urging Residents To Vote

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — In what has been an unprecedented campaign 2020, Philadelphia has been front and center of President Donald Trump’s criticism over balloting and early voting. Community leaders continue to encourage voter registrations.

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Civil rights leaders at the head of the NAACP and the National Urban League say Americans get 2 things wrong about the racial wealth gap (Business Insider)

If you want to get a heated debate going, start talking about the reasons for the wealth gap between Black and white Americans. Everybody has an opinion.

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Black-owned gay bars are dwindling. Can they survive Covid? (NBC News)

For more than two decades, gay bars, especially those owned by people of color, have been disappearing. Historically, these spaces were where the LGBTQ community gathered to find romance, make long-lasting friendships and engage in community activism.

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