MARC MORIAL SPEAKS ON KATRINA
President of the National Urban League Marc Morial speaks about Hurricane Katrina and the 2006 State of Black America Report, in Washington on February 14, 2006. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch).
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The head of the Urban League said Sunday that Washington will have to face up to issue of the income gap in the coming elections.
WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama meets with leaders of the NAACP and the National Urban League Thursday at the White House, the daily schedule indicates.
CHICAGO, July 31 (UPI) -- Government officials, like the National Urban League, are doing everything possible to lead urban areas into the future, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Progress toward U.S. racial equality and social change envisioned by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is spotty 40 years after his death.
NEW ORLEANS, April 29 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined about 750 people for a protest against the lack of progress in rebuilding the poorest parts of New Orleans.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee opened what likely will be a lengthy look into government responses to Hurricane Katrina.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Six more people were charged in New Orleans in an alleged scheme to skim money from an $81 million energy-saving contract under former Mayor Marc Morial.
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NEW ORLEANS, July 25 (UPI) -- Mayor Ray Nagin named a new director at the New Orleans health department Thursday in his expanding campaign to overhaul city government and investigate charges
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