ELYRIA (July 10, 2023) – The Lorain County Urban League (Elyria, OH) is hosting an open mic for its Project Ready students.

The event, taking place on Tuesday, July 18th at the Urban League, from 7:30 PM – 10 PM.

Project Ready is an Urban League program that empowers high school students by providing them exposure to college, life, and career.

Achilles Morales, Director of Education and Youth Development at the Urban League, said, “We are thrilled to host the Open Mic Night as part of our Project Ready Summer Program. This event is an opportunity for youth to  showcase their unique talents and passions.”

CHATTANOOGA (July 10, 2023) – The Urban League of Greater Chattanooga (Chattanooga, TN) is now accepting applications for its Project Ready mentor program.

The program, called Project Ready Mentor: National Achievers Society, is one of the Urban League’s signature programs, as it focuses on various areas of development, in including academic, mentoring, cultural and leadership development. It seeks to prepare high school minority students not only for college, but for life and careers.

ST. LOUIS (July 10, 2023) – The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) joined other community groups in welcoming the North America Building Trades Unions at an event stop.

The event, which was organized by the Missouri Works Initiative, the Missouri AFL-CIO, and the Saint Louis Building and Construction Trades Council, really emphasized the importance of unions, not only locally, but nationally.

Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League was scheduled to speak at the event but was held due to weather and flight delays. Michael P. McMillan, President and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, along with Traci Scott, Vice President of Workforce Development at the National Urban League, spoke in Morial’s place.

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Dr. Bernard E. Anderson
Whitney M Young, Jr. Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Economic Advisor, National Urban League

 In June, the economy produced 209,000 jobs as the unemployment rate edged down to 3.7 percent. Employment growth was concentrated in government, health care, social services, and construction.

While the employment/population rate remained unchanged at 60.3 percent, Black women were the only group that showed a decline in labor force participation. This contributing to the Black unemployment rate 0.6 increase to 6.1 percent since last month compared to the 0.2 percent decline seen in White unemployment to 3.1 percent.

Marc H. Morial 
President and CEO
National Urban League

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NEW YORK (June 30, 20202) -- National Urban League President Marc H. Morial issued the following statement today in response to the Supreme Court's decision on student loan relief:

“In striking down President Biden’s student loan relief plan, the Supreme Court has delivered a second devastating blow in as many days to the movement for racial justice and set the stage for further destabilization of the nation’s economy. 

Marc H. Morial 
President and CEO
National Urban League


“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country’s actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America’s real-world problems.” Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina  

Affirmative action in college admissions has never given applicants of color an advantage over white applicants. It merely diminished, however slightly, the vast advantage white applicants have had over applicants of color. 

In a devastating blow, the Supreme Court has ruled to end affirmative action in college admissions.