MAY JOBS REPORT: ECONOMY “RISING LIKE A PHOENIX”
by Dr. Bernard A. Anderson
Professor Emeritus, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Economic Advisor, National Urban League
As the season moves from spring to summer, the economy is rising like a phoenix. The pandemic is coming under control following widespread population vaccinations. Business activity is increasing in many industries driven by federal government spending.
Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY
Mayor Tishaura Jones peels off her bedazzled facemask while standing outside downtown's St. Patrick Center, preparing to address the crowd about the facility's new women's center.
On one side of a 6-foot black steel fence closest to the Catholic-based homeless shelter's entrance are clergy, dignitaries and other stakeholders.
The other side is home to a large gravel lot where about a dozen homeless people – mostly men – sleep, wander and watch the mayor.
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Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League
“Rather than divide and discriminate, let us come together and create one nation. We are all one people. We all live in the American house. We are all the American family. Let us recognize that the gay people living in our house share the same hopes, troubles, and dreams. It's time we treated them as equals, as family.” – Rep. John Lewis
This week marks the beginning of Pride Month, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a turning point in the movement for LGBTQ rights.
It’s a time for those of us in the racial justice movement to affirm our solidarity and acknowledge – as the late Congressman John Lewis said – “You cannot have equality for some in America and not equality for all.”
NEW YORK (May 31, 2021) – National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial issued the following statement in response to the death of longtime Board of Trustees member and former Chair John D. Hofmeister:
A Century Later, Tulsa Massacre Exemplifies America's Reluctance To Confront Its Legacy Of White Supremacism
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League
“I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams,” she said. “I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history but I cannot.” – 107-year-old Viola Fletcher, survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
They killed an estimated 300 people. They inflicted serious injury on more than 800 people. They burned more than 1,250 homes to the ground, along with every church, school and business. They left 10,000 people homeless, and wreaked about $200 million in property damage in today’s dollars.
NEW YORK (May 27, 2021) -- The leaders of the National Urban League, Urban League of Louisiana and other civil rights and social justice organizations today demanded the immediate termination and arrest of every state trooper present during the 2019 fatal assault of Ronald Greene and anyone who participated in the two-year-long coverup of their crimes.
The National Urban League further has urged the U.S. Department of Justice to initiate an investigation of the Louisiana State Police to determine whether Greene’s death and the coverup are part of a pattern of excessive force, biased policing or other unconstitutional practices.
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