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NEW YORK (June 8, 2020) -- As millions of Americans take to the streets to peacefully demand an end to racially-motivated police brutality and systemic racism, Congressional leaders have introduced police reform legislation based largely on the recommendations of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations.

The May Jobs Report is a shocker. Contrary to most economists’ forecasts, employment grew  by 2.51 million last month, and the unemployment rate declined to 13.3%.  

“The tragic and senseless loss of Black lives to police-involved violence over the last several years --  and the callous indifference to justice in response..."

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — There’s a new effort to address systemic racism and inequity in our community.  The Urban League of Rochester and RIT are working together on a project called "Interrupt Racism."

NEW YORK (June 4, 2020) -- Former National Urban League leaders Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., John E. Jacob and Hugh B. Price, along with current President and CEO Marc H. Morial, have released the following joint statement:

Dear Chairman Clyburn and Ranking Member Scalise:

On behalf of the National Urban League, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights and direct services organization, we commend you for holding a member briefing on “An Unequal Burden:  Addressing Racial Health Disparities in the Coronavirus Pandemic.”  Established in 1910, National Urban League serves nearly 1.7 million people each year through our 90 affiliates in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and over 300 communities. Our mission is to enable African Americans and other underserved communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights. Today’s member briefing obviously concerns our civil rights mission—as seen through the lens of racial health disparities.

NEW YORK (June 1, 2020) -- The leaders of the nation’s leading civil rights and racial justice organizations have issued a joint statement in response to the unrest ravaging America’s cities.

National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial, along with Urban League affiliate leaders from around the country, issued the following statement in response to the civil unrest sweeping the nation:

Our communities are overwhelmed with grief. We are heartsick over the inhumanity we have witnessed in the recent deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.  We are appalled by the callous response from the authorities who shrugged in the face of evil.

Cities across the nation have erupted in rage and despair. As civil rights leaders who are committed to racial justice, we share the protesters’ anguish, and the heartbreak of the communities where uprisings have turned violent.

August 1963

Written By: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.