Body Bags to be Delivered to Mayor Rahm Emanuel to Draw Attention to City’s Mental Health Crisis
Today, mental health advocates will deliver body bags full of testimonies about the disastrous impact of clinic closures. "Body Bag...
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Civil Rights Leaders Present Agenda to Presidential Candidates Clinton and Sanders
Presidential candidate briefing news coverage As part of an ongoing engagement with presidential candidates to develop am agenda for...
New Data Shows African-Americans Disproportionately Affected by Hunger, Poverty
Washington, D.C. – African-Americans continue to suffer disproportionately high rates of hunger and poverty compared to other Americans, according to...
Legislators and Grassroots Leaders Release the People’s Agenda, A People-Focused Alternative to the Turnaround Agenda
On the eve of Rauner’s Budget Address, Groups Lays Out New Vision to Put People Back on the Agenda in...
Hillary Clinton to Meet With Civil Rights Leaders
Opening ReMARCs By Marc H. Morial President & CEO, National Urban League Civil Rights Briefings for Presidential Candidates Begin Tuesday...
FBI Arrests All Remaining Occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
At approximately 9:40 a.m. (Pacific) on Thursday, February 11, 2016, the FBI brought three of the remaining Malheur National Wildlife...
Justice Department Files Lawsuit to Bring Constitutional Policing to Ferguson, Missouri
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced that the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the...
Economic Justice Still Elusive Long After King’s ‘I Have a Dream’
By Edna Kane-Williams On April 3, 1968, nearly five years after his famous "I Have a Dream Speech,"...
Father Pfleger Squares Off With White Cops, Racists, Vets Over Illegal Tickets and the Chiraq Flag
Whites warn Pfleger not to come to Beverly By Chinta Strausberg Angered that a Chicago policeman has reportedly...
CSU Students, Alumni, Community Members and Supporters Rally at Thompson Center
CHICAGO, IL - Chicago State University, a predominantly Black institution located on the south side of Chicago, is facing imminent...
