Your voice matters. This week, we hosted a community meeting on voting rights at the Urban League of Greater Cleveland with our W. K. Kellogg Foundation Racial Equity Anchors Collaborative partners.  Share your own voting story.

Honoring a local hero. A library branch in Buffalo, NY has been renamed for former Buffalo Urban League president and CEO Leroy R. Coles. More on his life and legacy.

Your voice matters. This week, we hosted a community meeting on voting rights at the Urban League of Greater Cleveland with our W. K. Kellogg Foundation Racial Equity Anchors Collaborative partners. Share your own voting story.

Foreign Interference in American Democracy Specifically Targeted African Americans
State of Black America® 2019 Documents the State of the Black Vote 

“In the days leading up to the election, the IRA [Russian Troll Farm] began to deploy voter suppression tactics on the Black-community targeted accounts … As the election became imminent, themes were tied into several varieties of voter suppression narratives: don’t vote, state home, this country is not for Black people, these candidates don’t care about Black people.” – U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Report, “The Tactics and Tropes of the Internet Research Agency”

The U.S. Intelligence community announced it was “confident” that it happened.

A Senate Intelligence Committee report confirmed it.

And now the Mueller Report has documented its scope in breathtaking detail.

April 16, 2019 – The National Urban League Washington Bureau is pleased to welcome 30 new members to its Certificate in Advocacy Program.  This immersive program provides classroom training, peer-to-peer learning, as well as Capitol Hill and on-the-ground advocacy experiences to equip leaders from across the country to be more effective catalysts for change in their communities.  The members of the Spring 2019 class of the National Urban League Certificate in Advocacy Program are:

Ibrahim Adam, Houston, TX

Leelynn Brady, Norfolk, VA

Kendra Brim, Buffalo, NY

Calvin Brown, St. Petersburg, FL

Shane Cannon, Wilmington, DE

Crystal Comeger, Wilmington, DE

Ashley Curry, Houston, TX

Erika Deans, Central Islip, NY

Deion Dorsett, Houston, TX

April 5, 2019 -- Mastercard General Counsel Tim Murphy has been elected to serve as the 22nd chairman of the National Urban League Board of Trustees.

Murphy was elected at the National Urban League’ Board of Trustees quarterly meeting in New York City. He will begin his two-year term in November, serving as chair-elect until then.

Murphy was first elected to the National Urban League's board of trustees in 2015.

"Tim Murphy’s expertise, commitment and passion for the mission of the National Urban League have made him one of our most valued trustees for the last several years,” National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial said. “We are thrilled with his election to chair and look forward to an exciting and productive new era of leadership.”

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA (February 6, 2019) -- The 2019 National Urban League Conference, returning to Indianapolis after 25 years, will attract thousands of the nation’s most forward-thinking community and business leaders for four days of speakers, workshops, exhibitions and networking events, all centered on the theme “Getting 2 Equal: United Not Divided,” leaders announced today.

As has been the National Urban League’s tradition during presidential election cycles, all major-party declared candidates will be invited to address the Conference.