[Civil Rights Protections\COVID-19]
Morial: “In an act of breathtakingly bad faith, the federal compliance office has issued an order suspending equal opportunity requirements during the coronavirus crisis. Companies who contract with the federal government are now free to discriminate.”
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Marc Morial
AMERICA’S GOVERNORS AND MAYORS FILL LEADERSHIP VOID LEFT BY TRUMP
[COVID-19\Leadership]
Morial: “As the President has faltered, governors and mayors have risen – most notably, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose state has been the hardest-hit.”
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CLYBURN’S ENDORSEMENT OF BIDEN DEMONSTRATES POWER OF BLACK VOTE
[2020 Elections\Rep. James Clyburn]
Clyburn’s endorsement, and the response of Black voters, has put Biden on what appears to be an inevitable path to the Democratic nomination.
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NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: URGENT PHASE OF 2020 CENSUS FOR BLACK AMERICA STARTS ON MARCH 12TH
[2020 Census\African-Americans]
Urban League’ Morial: If Black people are undercounted by 1.7 million, as many forecasts predict, it will cost states 3.4 billion dollars a year…I can’t overstate how important it is for Black Americans to participate in the Census.”
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MICHELLE OBAMA TALKS OUR STATE OF THE UNION AND FAMILY AT ESSENCE FESTIVAL
[Essence Festival Anniversary]
Michelle Obama: “I want all young girls out there to know — we all struggle with that, people of color, working class folks, women of color — people try to define us in a negative way before we get a chance to get out there and tell our own stories.”
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Urban League President Morial: “We Must Not Let Our Guard Down” Because Supreme Court Temporarily Blocked Trump’s Bigoted Census Citizenship Question
[Supreme Court]
Trump’s xenophobic attempt to add citizenship question was temporarily stopped because of what Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called “contrived reasons.”
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