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MORIAL: The Freedom to Learn is the Freedom to Live

by Marc H. Morial May 7, 2025May 7, 2025

The National Urban League is joining the #HandsOffOurHistory / Freedom To Learn National Week of Action to oppose the Trump administration’s assault on American history and culture, advocating for the preservation of Black history and the defense of democracy.

The HBCU Brain Trust president’s panel included (from left) Makola M. Abdullah, president of Virginia State University, Heidi M. Anderson, president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Suzanne Elise Walsh, president of Bennett College. (Brenda C. Siler/The Washington Informer)

Strategies for Political and Business Success Highlight CBCF-ALC Sessions

by Brenda C. Siler September 27, 2023September 28, 2023

Courtesy of ncbcp.org

BWR TOP National Challenge

by James Wright Jr. March 1, 2023March 1, 2023

Courtesy of Black Women's Roundtable

Black Experience

BWR Releases Annual Report on Black Women in the U.S.

by WI Guest Author March 26, 2021December 21, 2021

The Rev. Al Sharpton leads the Commitment March to fight for criminal justice reform on August 28 with some of the families who have lost loved ones to police brutality. The march, under the rallying call "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks," coincided with the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Marc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks

by WI Guest Author September 9, 2020December 21, 2021

Students from Howard University and others schools in the D.C. area participate in the Get Out the Vote campaign as part of National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Ronald W. Walters Leadership & Policy Center in Northwest on Nov. 6. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

EDITORIAL: To Motivate Black Youth to Vote, Avoid Guilt Factor — Just Use Facts

by WI Guest Author February 19, 2020December 21, 2021

Black Experience, Politics, Stacy M. Brown

Demands for 2020 Candidates Laid Bare in Black Women’s Roundtable-Essence Poll

by Stacy M. Brown September 18, 2019December 21, 2021

Courtesy of U.S. Census Bureau

Black Experience, National

Black Leaders Push for Fair 2020 Census Count

by James Wright Jr. June 19, 2019December 21, 2021

A panel moderated by Melanie Campbell (second from left), president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable, discusses the current federal and state landscape for family and medical leave with a special focus on how the Family Act will make vital improvement to people of color. Panel participants included (from left) Carolyn Davis of United for Respect, Dariely Rodriquez of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Jennifer Brown of UnidosUS, and Vasu Reddy of the National Partnership for Women & Families. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

National, Stacy M. Brown

Family Act Key for Blacks, Coalition Says

by Stacy M. Brown June 12, 2019December 21, 2021

Students from Howard University and others schools in the D.C. area participate in the Get Out the Vote campaign as part of National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Ronald W. Walters Leadership & Policy Center in Northwest on Nov. 6. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Black Organizers, Students Make Sense of Midterm Elections

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. November 14, 2018October 31, 2020