‘You are the medicine,’ Urban League Leader Tells MLK Day Service in Morristown
With racism on the rise and economic disparity widening, it’s time to stand up and be counted–at the ballot box and in this year’s U.S. Census, the CEO of the National Urban League told a Martin Luther King Day service in Morristown.
ReMarcs Newsletter - January 18, 2020
MLK Observance. Don't miss Marc Morial's keynote speech at the Calvary Baptist Church in New Jersey on Monday! Follow updates on social media (@MarcMorial) | MLK Day. One way to honor Dr. King on his 91st birthday is to participate in Day of Service. Find an opportunity to serve your local community. | Hate crimes and Jewish-Black tensions. In the wake of the anti-Semitic attack at a Rabbi’s home in New York, it’s time to put aside our differences and come together. | Remembering James Buford. He spent over 25 years fighting for economic empowerment as head of the Urban League of St. Louis. More on his legacy. | Time is ticking. January 31st is the last day to save before registration prices go up for this year's National Urban League Conference. Don’t miss out! | What's new in DC? From impeachment to Oscars So White and the campaign trail, there’s a lot happening in the news. Washington Bureau Insider has the latest!
MLK’s Legacy Even More Relevant As Hate Crimes Continue To Rise
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
A report that hate crimes surged in America’s five largest cities last year has broken just as we prepare to honor the nation’s best-known victim of a hate crime.
The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, found that hate crimes were at their highest level since September 11, 2001, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, with the Jewish community being the most frequent target in all five of the cities.
Upon MLK Holiday Week, Struggle Against Violence, for Economic Justice, and Racial Equality Undermines Black Leadership
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As America prepares to pause on Monday, January 20, to commemorate and reflect on the life and principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the three most essential aspects of the revered civil rights leader’s work – economic justice, racial equality and strategic non-violence – remain among the foremost civil rights issues across America.
Census Bureau Plans Hundreds of Ads in 13 Languages for 2020
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Faced with a changed media landscape from the last once-a-decade head count in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau officials unveiled a multi-million dollar media campaign...
Civil Rights Organizations Call for Defeat of Andrew Brasher’s Nomination to Eleventh Circuit
With Trump’s impeachment, Senate should not even consider Brasher nomination
James Buford Remembered
A pillar of the civic community, James H. Buford mingled with both corporate executives and civil rights activists.
He was “as comfortable in the suite as on the street,” Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, said on Saturday at Buford’s funeral.
Hundreds filed into St. Alphonsus “Rock” Church in the Grand Center neighborhood on Saturday to pay tribute to Buford, the longtime head of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis (St. Louis, MO).
Buford, who led the organization here from 1985 until his 2013 retirement, is credited with reinvigorating a sleepy, docile chapter in St. Louis and turning it into the Urban League’s “best affiliate in the country,” Morial said, and “I dare say one of the strongest and most impactful community service organizations anywhere in America.”
NFL Adds 6 Grassroots Groups to Inspire Change Initiative
The NFL is awarding new grants to six social justice organizations as part of its “ Inspire Change “ initiative that emphasizes education and economic development, community and police relations, and criminal justice reform.
Energy Company Partners with CA Leaders on Solar Tree Project
Area leaders from SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District), a community-owned electric service, the Sacramento Promise Zone collaborative, Sacramento Black Chamber of Commerce, Greater Sacramento Urban League (Sacramento, CA), the Sacramento Kings, Baker Energy Team, UC Davis and Spotlight Solar have partnered together to create a workforce development project designed to increase the use of solar in public places.
The project aims to install solar trees, manufactured by Spotlight Solar, at up to 11 locations within Sacramento. Locations include GSUL, the Simmons Community Center and a site within the Twin Rivers Unified School District.