The Urban League of Union County (Elizabeth, NJ) will celebrate 82 years of service and community impact at its 82nd Anniversary Gala, An Emerald Era: Legacy Revealed, on Friday, October 9, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn in Springfield, New Jersey.

Presented as an elegant Black Tie Masquerade Gala, the annual fundraiser will unite community leaders, corporate partners and supporters while raising critical funds for Urban League programs in housing, workforce development, reentry, youth development, health and wellness, violence prevention and community engagement.

The evening will recognize individuals and organizations whose leadership and service reflect the Urban League's mission.

2026 Honorees include:

The Pinellas County Urban League (St. Petersburgh, FL) and the Hillsborough County Urban League (Tampa, FL) have now merged into one regional organization.

It’s a plan leaders said will have major impacts throughout the region when it comes to helping the communities they serve.

“Everything that we do from an Urban League perspective, we touch all of our pillars from housing to education to workforce development and help. And that’s what we do as an Urban League of Florida Suncoast now, just regionally,” said Urban League of Florida Suncoast CEO, Nikki Gaskin-Capehart.

Community block parties with resources, targeted exercise classes for seniors mixed in with financial literacy course. Those are the kinds of programs offered at the Pinellas County Urban League, and it’s an approach people will start to see on both sides of the bridge with this new merger.

On Tuesday, September 22, Savannah Gym at Indiana University Northwest was filled with hundreds of high school students for a great day of networking and learning about what their future could look like after high school graduation.

Urban League of Northwest Indiana or NWI (Gary, IN) partnered with Infinite Scholars, and IU Northwest to host their annual scholarship fair, including over 50 different colleges and career options from across the country. Students were able to receive partial and full scholarships, talk with organization leaders, and begin taking the next step toward their future. The afternoon was filled with celebration, as many students left the fair receiving on-spot scholarships to universities. In addition, Invisible NWI and the NAACP was present representing Voter’s Registration, to register eligible students and adults in preparation for the November 3rd election. 

NEW YORK (September 24, 2026) — The National Urban League is calling on Axios to retract a statement on deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) which was inaccurately attributed to our President and CEO, Marc H. Morial.

Contrary to a report in Axios, Morial did not speak with Axios, and the National Urban League did not provide or authorize the use of the quoted statement for the article. The National Urban League has not taken a position on any specific legislation and is in no way involved in a planned rally in Washington, D.C.  The National Urban League was not contacted by Axios prior to publication nor given the opportunity to accurately state our position. 

Marc H. Morial 
President and CEO
National Urban League

NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE, NAACP, 100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA, BLACK MEN VOTE, WOKE VOTE AND STATE OF THE PEOPLE LAUNCH JOINT CAMPAIGN TO MOBILIZE 100,000 BLACK MEN TO VOTE EARLY

National Black Man Voter Day set for October 24; coalition partners to coordinate nationwide voter education and community-based mobilization

WASHINGTON (September 21, 2026) — The NAACP, 100 Black Men of America, National Urban League, Black Men Vote, Woke Vote and State of the People today announced the launch of National Black Man Voter Day, a coordinated national civic-engagement campaign with a goal of mobilizing 100,000 Black men ahead of early voting on Saturday, October 24, 2026.

By Precinct Reporter News

By Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League

“The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It is a peculiar time in America, when economists offer varying outlooks on our economy. Some herald the artificial intelligence era as a period of great prosperity. The stock markets continue to climb, nearly unscathed by a war that costs the nation nearly $1 billion every day. And the current administration, despite firing the official overseeing the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report just over a year ago, says the job market shows signs of growth.

But for most Americans, the reality paints a much dimmer picture. 

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