Social justice advocate Tamika D. Mallory made a special guest appearance at the St. Pete Coliseum as part of the initiative.

The nonprofit has tapped its interim leader who brings experience in D.C. government and education.

Marc H. Morial 
President and CEO
National Urban League

The National Urban League has spent more than a century fighting for economic opportunity. We know that access to capital changes lives.

A mortgage can help a family build generational wealth. A small business loan can turn a dream into a thriving enterprise. Fair and affordable credit can determine whether someone purchases their first home, expands a business, pays for an education, or weathers a financial emergency.

But for much of American history, those opportunities were deliberately denied to Black Americans, women, and other groups through discriminatory lending practices. It took decades of determined struggle to tear down those barriers and enact protections that required lenders to judge applicants on their qualifications rather than the color of their skin, their gender, or their ZIP code.

Now the Trump Administration is trying to undo that progress.

NEW YORK ( October 29, 2026) -- The National Urban League and the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations today filed a lawsuit challenging the administration’s efforts to undermine equal access to credit.

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Evansville NAACP chapter meets downtown to unite and celebrate, marches to encourage voters

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) -- Members and guests of the NAACP Evansville branch gathered downtown, for the 2026 NAACP Indiana conference and convention.

The theme of the event was "We the People Have the Power". The conference celebrated the NAACP's heritage, honored members who have served, and united attendees.

There were a handful of guest speakers attending the event, including Evansville Mayor Stephanie Terry and Sadie Harper-Scott, the president of Indiana NAACP.

The group also held a march, that started at the CK Newsome Center to the Central Library, to encourage voter for the upcoming midterms.

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Marc H. Morial 
President and CEO
National Urban League

"Nothing can stop the power of a committed and determined people to make a difference in our society." - John Lewis

Racism in America is a virus that eats at our moral foundation and breaks down our institutions from the inside out – including our political system. 

Nearly two years into this new administration, Black Americans have been targeted by an executive order that stripped hundreds of thousands of hard-working public servants of their jobs and created hostile work environments for all of us. We’ve been denied promotions in the military, had our positions of power threatened by the President himself, and had the voting rights many of us died for in the 1960s gutted by federal courts packed with loyalists. 

But like any other virus that tries to overtake us, we build our defenses and fight back.

Marc H. Morial 
President and CEO
National Urban League

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2

Many know this line as a metaphor for the weight of leadership in the face of adversity.

Despite the efforts of the White House and its devoted followers, the crown in America belongs to We the People, not the President. Not now and not ever.