Depending on which entrance drivers used to enter the roundabout driveway to the Urban League on Sunday afternoon, they were greeted with either the rat-a-tat of the Thunder Drummers or the thumping bass of a Perry Broadcasting DJ booth. Either way, they were in for a fun treat as the sights and sounds of the Thunder’s final voter registration drive came into full view.

The Thunder partnered with the Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City (Oklahoma City, OK) for its last voter registration event before the Oct. 9 deadline. Without ever leaving their cars, people could drive up to the booth and pick up a clear Thunder bag filled with everything necessary to register to vote­ – a voter registration form and a pre-stamped and addressed envelope for simple mailing. The bag also included free Thunder VOTE T-shirts and a box of face masks.

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By Dr. Bernard E. Anderson, Professor Emeritus, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and National Urban League Senior Economic Advisor

In September, private sector employment grew by 877,000, state and local employment declined 231,000 and the unemployment rate fell to 7.9%.  The leisure hospitality industry gained 318 thousand jobs, two-thirds of the total job growth. Most industries showed some job growth.

Join us for a powerful discussion about the financial literacy of Alack Americans and weathering the current crises to build financial resilience, including an overview of the data and insights covered in the TIAA Institute-GFLEC Personal Finance Index report.

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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.

Numbers tell a story. According to the Brookings Institution, in 2016, at $171,000, the net worth of a typical white family was nearly 10 times greater than that of a Black family, $17,150. 

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. Throughout the 1980s, there were more than 1,500 such bars, a number that has declined steeply since the late ‘90s, with fewer than 1,000 existing today, according to a study published last year by Oberlin College and Conservatory professor Greggor Mattson.

President Trump plans to announce is Supreme Court pick on Saturday to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Marc Morial, National Urban League President & CEO, joins The Final Round to discuss the impact of the Supreme Court, its legacy with civil unrest in the United States, and what steps have been taken to actively solve some of the problems through the U.S. legal system.

Joining us now is Marc Morial. He's the President and CEO of the National Urban League. Marc, are you worried about having a conservative woman on the Supreme Court? And what impact do you think that would have on the country's legal system?

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Civil rights advocates and minority finance professionals are calling on Joe Biden to consider naming people of color to economic posts in his administration — and to reject demands by progressives to eliminate candidates from Wall Street.

In a new letter, the heads of organizations including the National Association of Securities Professionals and the National Urban League asked Biden to agree to appoint African Americans, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islanders and Native Americans to top economic policy roles in White House, Cabinet and regulatory leadership positions. The coalition is planning to develop a short list of potential candidates. Full story Politico.

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A day after the Census Bureau fired off a one-sentence tweet announcing Oct. 5 as its new "target date" for ending all efforts to tally the country's residents, a federal judge said she thinks the new schedule is "a violation" of her court order.

"The Oct. 5 date is doing exactly what I enjoined the defendants from doing," said U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in Northern California Tuesday during a virtual court conference for a lawsuit over the Trump administration's abrupt decision to shorten the census schedule.