This week strayed from our usual format to talk with key people in the Urban League Movement and fight for economic parity and social justice. We’ve asked our guests to share their personal accounts and reflection of their time in the civil rights and Urban League Movement, as well as their take on the State of Black America. Our guests are Damon Young (Very Smart Brothas), Hugh Price (Aspen Institute), Benjamin Crump (Civil Rights Attorney), Marc H. Morial (National Urban League), Jason Towns (Venture Capitalist), Angela Yee (The Breakfast Club), and Vie Kaufman (Urban League Historian).
Mentioned in This Episode:Reflecting on the history of the Urban League Movement and the State of Black America
Chronicling The Movement from the 60s until now
Hugh Price, former president of the National Urban League (1994-2003), Aspen Institute Commissioner, and author of This African American Life
Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League and former Mayor of New Orleans
Vie Kaufman, National Urban League Historian (1972- present)
Black Lives Matter and technology has helped to progress and curtail abuses in police abuse
The debate around affirmative action in the 90s
The importance of continuing to put pressure on government to move the needle
There’s no entitlement to exist. You must adapt and progress
Urban League helped people that were a part of the great migration to get into the mainstream
Urban League opened the doors to nontraditional jobs for women
What is the response when people say the Urban League is a middle class organization?
Corporations recruiting at HBCUs was a pioneering effort of the Urban League in 1950s
How important is it that the civil rights community work together?
Vision for the future of the Urban League and The Movement
Reframing and rebranding the Urban League
Early days of the Urban League’s fight for police reform
Embrace the digital age and world
Me Too Movement
The power of African American women
Finding housing and jobs for people through Urban League programs
How civil rights organizations play together and false narratives about how groups work together
There’s no tension between legacy organizations and Black Lives Matter. Don’t believe the hype
Bring the Movement to Washington
Race relations in America
Are you in the fight?
Voter education
Our job as civil right advocates is work our way out of a job
Young Professionals
National Urban League Guild
Chocolate City by Dr. Derek Musgrove
Vernon Jordan
John Jacobs
Whitney M. Young
Ed Lewis, Essence Magazine
Rev. Al Sharpton organizing
President Bill Clinton on police violence
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Johnny Cochran
Janet Reno
Former White House Counsel Charles Ruff
Dick Gregory
Former Congressman John Conyers
Former Attorney General Eric Holder
Bill O'Reilly
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Leadership Conference for
NAACP Defense Fund
League of Women Voters National Council on LaRaza Anti-defamation League
Democratic Convention in 1984
Anti-apartheid Movement
Justice Thurgood Marshall last case
Howard University School of Communications Freedman Hospital
Tuskegee University Amherst College University of Pennsylvania Georgetown University School of Law
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