[Senator Kamala Harris\2020 Elections]
Morial: “It’s no surprise that Black women have emerged among the nation’s strongest and most competent leaders. The formidable challenges that women, particularly women of color, must overcome to achieve positions of prominence…”
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National Urban League
National Black Coalition Joins Forces to Maximize Voter Turnout
[ National Coalition’s Unity ’2020 Black Voting & Power Building Campaign ]
The event will be livestreamed on the NCBCP Facebook platform at www.facebook.com/NCBCP/ and on #RolandMartinUnfiltered Facebook, You-Tube and Periscope.
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First National Black Voter Day to be recognized on September 18
[#ReclaimYourVote Campaign]
BET: Scott Mills: “With 100 days until Election Day—it is critical for BET to utilize all of our resources and partnerships to drive Black civic engagement across the country, and the National Black Voter Day is a key part of this effort.”
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We Must Restore Voting Rights Act to Honor John Lewis
[John Lewis\Voting Rights Act]
Morial: “John Lewis paid for the Voting Rights Act with his own blood. The Supreme Court made a mockery of his sacrifice when it gutted the Act, saying the country had changed and states no longer needed federal oversight to protect Black voters…”
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Empowering Black Broadcast Media in Wake of George Floyd Murder
[Empowering Black Broadcast Media]
Winston: “Blacks make up 13% of the American population, yet we own fewer than 180 of the more than 11,000 commercial radio stations in the U.S., 1.6%, and we own only 25 of the 1,374 full power television stations, 1.8%.”
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Tackling the Double Virus: COVID-19 and White Supremacy
[COVID-19\White Supremacy]
Morial: “Five years ago, in the wake of Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Ferguson, Missouri, police, the National Urban League called for comprehensive reform of police recruitment, training and use-of-force policies.”
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CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS, TO CALL FOR FEDERAL REFORM OF POLICE
[George Floyd\Police Reform]
The leaders of the nation’s top civil rights and social justice organizations and several members of Congress have scheduled a media briefing to demand federal action to reform the nation’s police departments.
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MORIAL: COVID-19 CAN’T DEFEAT RESILIENT GRADUATING CLASS OF 2020
[COVID-19\Graduating Class of 2020]
Morial: “The members of the Class of 2020 will carry with them forever the lessons of graduating into a world beset by a pandemic and economic crisis.”
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INVESTIGATE AHMAUD ARBERY’S DEATH—AND CORRUPT SYSTEM THAT LET HIS MURDERERS GO
[Marc Morial\Ahmaud Arbery]
Morial: “It boggles the mind that in the year 2020 there are still people in positions of authority who accept, unquestioningly, the notion that a Black man who fails to heed the orders of a white man on the street deserves instant death.”
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