Urban League

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush went into historically Democratic territory Friday to tell a predominantly African-American audience that the country’s decades-long efforts to fight poverty are failing — and his record as Florida governor, especially in education, serves as a blueprint for a future presidency…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report from the National Urban League says underemployment is a bigger obstacle for blacks than it is for whites or Hispanics…

theGRIO REPORT – T. Willard Fair is being honored for the work he’s done to advance people of color and celebrated as the longest serving executive in Urban League history…

theGRIO REPORT – Why, activists ask, hasn’t there been as much attention paid to Chicago’s crime issue nationally–the president’s hometown?…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – In one of his most expansive responses yet to gun crime, President Barack Obama on Wednesday embraced some degree of control on the sale of weapons but said he would also seek a national consensus on combating violence…

WASHINGTON (AP) – One of the country’s oldest civil rights groups says President Barack Obama may have a tougher time winning at least three battleground states in November should black voter turnout fall…