To Be Equal: Getting Counted
“Despite the positive changes we have made throughout history, there is a persistent trend of bad actors playing politics with the survey in order to disenfranchise racial minorities."
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Up in Smoke: A Conversation about the Youth Smoking Epidemic in America
Up in Smoke: A Conversation about the Youth Smoking Epidemic in America. Click Here to Listen
To Be Equal: Why private school vouchers are a failed experiment
“How bad are school vouchers for students? Far worse than most people imagine. Indeed, the use of school vouchers—which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools—is equivalent to missing out on more than one-third of a year of classroom learning.”
ReMarcs: Little-known history
As you get ready to fire up the grill and celebrate the 3-day weekend, take a moment to learn a bit of history that may surprise you.
Warren makes pitch to black voters with policy roadmap
By John Bowden, www.thehill.com
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is making a pitch to voters of color with a policy agenda focused on lower-income Americans and communities that have faced discrimination.
In an essay for the National Urban League's State of Black America report, Warren touted her efforts to expand access to housing, implement a wealth tax and cut down on government corruption.
"The homeownership gap has led to a staggering [racial] wealth gap," Warren wrote. "I believe that the federal government has a central role to play in reversing this damage caused in large part by decades of government-sanctioned discrimination. That’s why I introduced legislation to produce more than three million affordable housing units and bring down rents."
Shocking survey highlights hair based discrimination in the workplace
By HC Headley, Theladders.com
Black women experience discrimination in the workplace due to their natural hair and people need to be aware of it and take action.
In order to effectively unpack the impact of hair based biases in a professional setting, CROWN conducted a massive research survey of 2,000 American women between the ages of 25 and 64. Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, or the CROWN Coalition is an organization co-founded by DOVE, that intends to end race-based discrimination in the workplace. Alongside the personal care brand, the coalition is composed of founding members of the National Urban League, Color of Change, and the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
To Be Equal: Mourning a champion
This week we lost Judge Damon J. Keith, one of the greatest champions of voting rights in American history. More on his legacy.
Russian Efforts to Exploit Racial Divisions in 2016 Found Firm Ground in U.S., Report Says
Russian disinformation operations to exploit racial tensions during the 2016 presidential election in the United States found firm ground in a country where legislators have long sought to suppress the black vote, according to a report released Monday.
The report, “State of Black America,” was released by the National Urban League, a civil rights organization based in New York. It underlined the Russian interference in particular but said that black voting rights were under attack from a wide range of actors, including domestic politicians.
In about two dozen states, voting restrictions have gotten worse since 2010 because of changes including new voter identification laws and decisions to limit locations where voters can cast ballots, the report said.
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Civil rights group urges action against Russian effort to suppress the black vote
National Urban League uses its annual State of Black America report to decry Kremlin targeting of black voters.
Adding its voice to a crescendo of complaints about Russian interference in both the 2016 presidential and the 2018 midterm elections, one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights and urban advocacy organizations decried efforts by foreign agents to use social media outlets to suppress voting turnout among black Americans.
In its State of Black America 2019 report, released Monday morning at a news conference in Washington, D.C., the National Urban League (NUL) said that state-sponsored Russian activists fed into the nation’s simmering racial antagonism in an effort to tamp down black voters’ confidence and dissuade voting participation.
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