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.

Spectrum today announced two Madison-area nonprofits, Urban League of Greater Madison (Madison, WI) and 100 Black Men, will receive a cumulative total of $45,000 in Spectrum Digital Education Grants. Spectrum’s grants aim to further digital literacy in underserved populations within the Madison area. These grants are part of the company’s multi-year, $6 million cash and in-kind national commitment to digital education in Spectrum communities across the country.

“We thank Urban League of Greater Madison and 100 Black Men for being instrumental in helping us provide support for digital education in the Madison community,” said Rahman Khan, Vice President of Community Impact for Charter Communications, Inc., which operates the Spectrum brand of TV, Internet, Voice and Mobile products. “Through these organizations, we can continue to provide those in need with the resources to navigate the challenges of the digital age.”

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A block party hosted by the Urban League of Racine and Kenosha (Racine, WI) Saturday had all the typical features—a band, a bounce house and barbecue—with a more serious focus as well; voter registration and COVID-19 testing.

The Time For Change Block Party, held from 1 to 4 p.m. on the 6800 block of 14th Avenue, was focused on getting out the vote and on making sure people had access to free testing for the virus.

James Hall, the interim president of the Urban League, said that the neighborhood surrounding the local Urban League office has both low voting turnout and a lack of access to COVID-19 testing.

“We hope to register at least 200 people to vote and to have at least 200 people get tested,” Hall said.

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The Urban League of Greater Chattanooga (Chattanooga, TN) will soon begin the first session of NextLevel, a business development program offered by the Urban League's Entrepreneur Center in partnership with Tennessee Valley Authority, Interise and Tennessee Urban League Affiliates. The purpose of the seven-month program, scheduled to start Sept. 30, is to "support small business owners who wish to focus their goals in an effort to grow his or her business." 
 
"NextLevel is a tremendous learning opportunity for established business owners in the area to build a roadmap that turns plans into action," said Warren E. Logan, Jr., president and CEO of Urban League of Greater Chattanooga. "We deeply appreciate our community partners, Tennessee Valley Authority and Interise, for their commitment to Chattanooga entrepreneurs who are ready to take their next steps forward."
 

LOUISVILLE, KY (September 23, 2020) -- Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, and Sadiqa N. Reynolds, Esq., President & CEO of the Louisville Urban League, issued the following joint statement in response to a grand jury’s failure to seek justice for the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

LOUISVILLE, KY (September 23, 2020) — Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, and Sadiqa N. Reynolds, Esq., President & CEO of the Louisville Urban League, issued the following joint statement in response to a grand jury’s failure to seek justice for the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

Perversion of justice is too feeble a term to describe the grand jury’s decision not to file a single criminal charge related to Breonna’s death. It is an affront to Breonna’s memory, and to the millions of Americans who have stood in solidarity with Breonna’s family and marched in the streets in her name.

The barrage of gunfire that endangered Breonna’s neighbors is the very same gunfire that took Breonna’s life. It is incomprehensible to suggest that the risk of injuring neighbors is a crime but the actual killing of an innocent young woman is not.

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