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The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) is launching an urgent campaign to combat speeding in the city by distributing 3,500 yard signs and placing billboards in high-risk areas.

The campaign, which kicked off Thursday afternoon (September 11th) at the Crown Mart, near Jefferson and Martin Luther King, aims to remind drivers to slow down and drive responsibly.

“We have over 3,500-yard signs placed in the neighborhoods challenging people to be more responsible,” said James Clark, Vice President of the Division of Public Safety and Community Response at the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis.

In addition to yard signs, the Urban League is placing billboards along streets where speeding is a regular issue. These visual reminders are part of a broader public awareness campaign to reduce speeding incidents.

The Louisville Urban League (Louisville, KY) is taking new steps to combat childhood obesity. 

In June, the Urban League announced a new initiative, “A Healthier Path Forward." A grant enabled the organization to open its application process, looking for innovators who could help solve what CEO Lyndon Pryor called a multi-pronged issue. 

He said childhood obesity disproportionately affects children in the West End.

“There are a whole host of different things – finances, poverty – lots of things, even if you just wanted to take one issue," Pryor said. 

The application process will last five weeks long, and at the end of its search, six innovators will receive more than $200,000 to provide a solution to childhood obesity that suits Louisville’s needs.

The National Urban League was founded in 1910 to respond to the social and economic changes brought by the Great Migration of Black people from the rural South to northern cities. The Tacoma Urban League was founded in 1968, and in 1976, the chapter dedicated a new building, becoming the first affiliate in the nation to build and own its own facility. Now, nearly 50 years later, Desireé Wilkins Finch is stepping onto the shoulders of Thomas Dixon, the founder of Tacoma Urban League (Tacoma, WA), and the CEOs who came after him to build upon an energy of empowerment and possibility. The Tacoma Urban League has long been a beacon for the community, serving families and transforming lives. On Friday, September 19, the organization will celebrate the grand opening of its newly remodeled space, continuing a history of legacy and liberation through financial empowerment that has defined its work for decades. 

NEW YORK (September 14, 2025) — National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial today called on Fox News Channel to fire Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade over his shocking remarks about murdering homeless people.

"Kilmeade's comments reveal a stunning lack of compassion and indefensible ignorance about homelessness and mental illness," Morial said. "It's doubly offensive that he would make them at a rare moment when leaders from all points on the political spectrum have urged a halt to incendiary political rhetoric."

I want to start this week’s column by validating your anxiety about the state of our country. The violence we see in the morning, noon, and night is not normal.

To date, America has seen 357 mass shootings in 2025 alone; a rate that exceeds one per day.

Marc H. Morial 
President and CEO
National Urban League

I want to start this week’s column by validating your anxiety about the state of our country. The violence we see in the morning, noon, and night is not normal.

To date, America has seen 357 mass shootings in 2025 alone; a rate that exceeds one per day.

In the last two weeks alone, we witnessed a mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that claimed the lives of two children and injured 21 others, and the violent murder of an influencer. Both incidents have spread like wildfire on social media platforms that have repeatedly failed to curb hate speech and violent rhetoric.