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Marc H. Morial is President and CEO of the National Urban League. He was a Louisiana State Senator from 1992-1994, and served as mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002. Morial is an Executive Committee member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Black Leadership Forum and Leadership, and is a Board Member of both the Muhammad Ali Center and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Vaping – More Dangerous Than Once Thought – Is An Epidemic Among Teens That We Must End
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League"We must take aggressive steps to protect our children from these highly potent products that risk exposing a...
Blackface is a Flaunting of White Privilege
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League“Blackface isn’t just another costume. It’s a mask of privilege, the kind of unchallenged power that comes through...
Raise the Wage Act Is a Long-Overdue Dose of Economic Reality
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League“In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country....
Spike Lee’s Best Director Nomination is Long Overdue
“People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world … I do...
The Next Attorney General Must Enforce Civil Rights Laws. William Barr Won’t.
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League“The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed...
A Change for the Better: House Rules on Staff Diversity
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban LeagueDiversity matters. In a world that is both diverse and deeply interconnected, companies and institutions with greater levels...
A Message to Presidential Candidates: A Winning Strategy Includes a Plan for Black America
a"You want our vote, come get our vote.” – Angela Lang, executive director, Black Leaders Organizing for CommunitiesThe nation recently experienced a midterm election...
Early Voting and Expanded Absentee Voting are Key to Fair Elections
“Georgia elections officials deployed a known strategy of voter suppression: closing and relocating polling places. Despite projections of record turnout, elections officials closed or...
Does Democratic Takeover of the House Mean the ACA is Safe?
“I’m signing it for 11-year-old Marcelas Owens, who’s also here. Marcelas lost his mom to an illness. And she didn’t have insurance and couldn’t...
Deep South States Take a Long-Overdue Step out of the Jim Crow Past
“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans....
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