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"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"

July 5, 1852, in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, addressing the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society

NEW YORK (July 2, 2020) -- The Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued today tracks an economy slowly pulling out of a deep pandemic-generated recession, but in grave danger of backsliding into an even worse situation.

The 4.8 million jobs recovered in June, added to 2.7 million jobs recovered in May, don’t even equal a third of the 22.2 million jobs lost in March and April.

When: June 30, 2020

Time: 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Join us as Tony Mason, President and CEO of the Indianapolis Urban League (Indianapolis, IN), leads a panel conversation around inequalities affecting millions of people around the world and in our own community. In January 2020, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs released the World Social Report 2020 highlighting that inequality is growing for more than 70 percent of the global population. Hear from a group of community leaders that will share a powerful dialogue on racial, education, economic, and health inequality and how the actions of every individual can make a difference.

Additional Panelists Include:

The senseless murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and most recently George Floyd, have been deeply and utterly disturbing. The longstanding violence against unarmed citizens of this nation has a familiar and painful stench.

Some believe conversations about race have no place in the workplace but we at Momentum Advisors and Momentum Risk Management took time to discuss these matters thoughtfully, to grieve, to pause and to reflect. As a minority-owned firm we understand that implicit bias, discrimination and racism have often been laying in plain sight at the core of our financial systems. These factors have played a key role in the creation and legacy of the wealth in this country, and our firms refuse to separate our professionalism from our humanity.

 The CROWN Coalition, a national alliance founded by Dove, National Urban League, Western Center on Law & Poverty, and Color Of Change is declaring July 3, 2020 as National CROWN Day; the 1-year anniversary of the signing of The CROWN Act in California.  The groundbreaking legislation, sponsored by the Coalition, was first introduced by Senator Holly J. Mitchell in January 2019 and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on July 3, 2019.  National CROWN Day will be a day of solidarity for the human rights of Black men, women and children to wear their natural hair boldly and proudly, without the fear of being discriminated against in school or the workplace.

Morgan Stanley is pleased to announce $10 million in grants to support the National Urban League (NUL) and expand a number of critical initiatives in communities where the Urban League operates. The funds will support the following initiatives:

The Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio (Cincinatti, OH) will use a million dollar grant to monitor police reforms and investigate claims of police misconduct outside of Cincinnati's city limits. The money will establish the Center for Social Justice at the Urban League, with work expected to launch in mid- to late July.

The grant comes from J. Phillip and Gail Holloman, and is the largest private gift to the Urban League chapter in its 72-year history. J. Phillip Holloman is the board chair and says social justice has been lacking in and around Cincinnati, and the grant will allow police monitoring to spread outside Cincinnati.