To Be Equal

Working to Close the Vaccine Gap is a Collective Effort

It is no secret how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been for marginalized communities in this country. The National Urban League quantified this impact in the 2020 edition of our annual capstone report, the State of Black America. 

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Election Of President With 34 Felony Convictions Makes A Mockery Of Felony Disenfranchisement

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal.” – Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow

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Indictment Of Russian Propagandists Underscores The Ongoing Threat To U.S. Election Integrity Outlined In State Of Black America

“The Russian government has long sought to sow discord and chaos in the United States through propaganda and foreign malign influence campaigns. As alleged, the covert operations by RT employees exploited our free and open press and targeted millions of Americans as unwitting victims of Russia’s psychological warfare.” – U.S. Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen

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Armed With New Technology And Tactics, Russian Trolls Are Back To Disrupt U.S. Elections

“Russia remains the most active foreign threat to our elections. The Russian government's goals in such influence operations tend to include eroding trust in U.S. democratic institutions, exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the United States, and degrading western support to Ukraine. Russia relies on a vast multimedia influence apparatus, which consists of its intelligence services, cyber actors, state media, proxies, and social media trolls. Moscow most likely views such operations as a means to tear down the United States as its perceived primary adversary, enabling Russia to promote itself as a great power.”  -- U.S. Director of National Intelligence

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Black-Owned Businesses Face Significant Obstacles. Anti-Racial Justice Efforts Are Making Them Worse

“Recent legal challenges have targeted programs aimed at alleviating the obstacles faced by marginalized communities, particularly those designed to promote equity in entrepreneurship..."

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We Can't Afford To Let Anyone Swiftboat Us On Bidenomics

Earlier this year, the National Urban League launched our D3 initiative to Defend Democracy, Demand Diversity, and Defeat Poverty.  The initiative to combat poverty emphasizes a comprehensive strategy centered on increasing access and equity across several critical areas, recognizing poverty as a significant national issue that jeopardizes the future prosperity of the United States. 

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Discriminatory Laws Have Driven Black Voters From The Polls. Reclaim Your Vote Aims To Bring Them Back.

“If the United States wants to make good on its foundational claims of a democratic system of governance open to all citizens, it must find ways to close the racial turnout gap. Wider now than at any point in at least the past 16 years, the gap costs millions of votes from Americans of color all around the country. Perhaps most worrisome of all, the gap is growing most quickly in parts of the country that were previously covered under the preclearance regime of the 1965 Voting Rights Act until the disastrous Shelby County ruling.” – Brennan Center For Justice

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State's Hostile Takeover of Tennessee State University is Stark Example of Blaming the Victim of the State's Own 30-Year Crime Spree

“By underfunding public HBCUs and denying the value of Black students on non-HBCU campuses, these extremists are making very clear the kinds of students they do and don’t want to succeed.  They also are the same ones waging war on the teaching of our nation’s full history. But if we studied that history they seek to quash, we would know that the news out of Tennessee is just the latest example of conservatives rejecting the notion that Black people possess the capacity for self-governance.” – Gevin Reynolds

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Supreme Court Abortion Case Is “The Remnants Of The Lost Cause Still Blowing In The Political Winds”

Marc H. Morial 
President and CEO
National Urban League
  

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Racist Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Is Aimed At Blinding Voters To Reality

“The bomb outrage in New York emphasizes the extent to which the alien scum from the cesspools of the Old World has polluted the clear spring of American democracy." – The Washington Post editorial board, Sept. 20, 1920

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