To Be Equal

“I’m left hanging my head and asking why. Why would anyone, especially an African American man use the symbolism of a noose to make...

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...

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...

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....

“People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world … I do...

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"You want our vote, come get our vote.” – Angela Lang, executive director, Black Leaders Organizing for CommunitiesThe nation recently experienced a midterm election...

“Georgia elections officials deployed a known strategy of voter suppression: closing and relocating polling places. Despite projections of record turnout, elections officials closed or...

“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...

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans....