By Marc H. Morial (President and CEO/National Urban League) “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of...
By Marc H. Morial (President and CEO, National Urban League) “I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished together over the past eight years. Here and around...
By Marc Morial (President and CEO of the National Urban League) “Don’t just give us money, and don’t just show up for the Equal Opportunity Day...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “It is necessary to reaffirm that employment is necessary for society, for families and for individuals. Its primary value...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “So let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice. He...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Some of the protections that had been enshrined in the Voting Rights Act itself have been weakened as a...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Many people see this situation escalating, and I think it shows the frustration that many minority communities feel when...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Up from a past that’s rooted in pain / I rise / I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “You must register. You must vote. You must learn, so your choice advances your interest and the interest of...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “They were still living by faith when they died, Scripture tells us. They did not receive the things promised;...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “A house divided against itself cannot stand…I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist By passing this bill, we bridge the gap between helplessness and hope for more than 5 million educationally deprived...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Your first job brings you more than just a steady paycheck – the experience teaches young people life and...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin All across the country, people are gathering...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend…B.B. may be gone, but that thrill will...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. / It’s had tacks in it, /And splinters, / And boards torn...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Wherever there has been struggle, black women have been identified with that struggle.” – Ella Baker, “The Black Woman...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it...