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July 15, 2021
Black Americans Are Battling 'Three Pandemics,' New Report Finds

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN

(CNN)Higher unemployment rates, lower household incomes and lack of access to health care left Black Americans more vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic and there is an urgency to address these structural inequities, according to a new report on the state of Black America released Thursday by the National Urban League.

The report titled "The New Normal: Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive," concluded that Black people are facing the burden of "three pandemics," which include racial inequity in health care, economics and public safety.

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July 15, 2021
2021 State of Black America Highlights The Urgency of Repairing Structural Flaws

2021 STATE OF BLACK AMERICA, “THE NEW NORMAL; DIVERSE, EQUITABLE & INCLUSIVE” HIGHLIGHTS THE URGENCY OF REPAIRING STRUCTURAL FLAWS UNMASKED BY THE CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC

Ending The “Three Pandemics” Of Racial Inequity in Health Care, Economics and Public Safety Requires Innovation, Deliberation 

NEW YORK (July 15, 2021) – The COVID-19 pandemic not only unmasked the stark racial inequities in the nation’s economic, health care and public safety status quo; it gave rise to a fierce resistance to that status quo and fueled  demand for racial justice that grows more intense with each passing month.

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July 15, 2021
Black Americans Uniquely Vulnerable to Covid Economic Fallout

 

CNBC’s “Squawk Box” team discusses the state of inequity amid the pandemic with Lisa Cooper of Johns Hopkins’ Center for Health Equity and Marc Morial, Urban League CEO.

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September 3, 2020
Urban League releases 2020 State of Black America

Cyril Josh Barker, Amsterdam News

The National Urban League has released its 2020 State of Black America report. This year’s report focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is pulling back the curtain on racism in America. The report was released virtually on Aug. 13 with speakers including, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, activist Tamika Mallory, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and author Michael Eric Dyson.

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August 24, 2020
Marc Morial: Improving Equity Requires Addressing ‘Three Pandemics’ Facing Black America

By Gabrielle Wanneh, US News

WHILE THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic has engulfed the nation in public health dangers and economic turmoil, Black Americans are facing particularly stark crises. In a sense, "Black America faces three pandemics" in the devastating health effects of COVID-19, significant economic distress, and issues related to policing and criminal justice, said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League.

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August 19, 2020
The State of Black America amid COVID-19

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Virus and Economic Fallout
May 9, 2019
Civil rights group urges action against Russian effort to suppress the black vote

National Urban League uses its annual State of Black America report to decry Kremlin targeting of black voters.

Adding its voice to a crescendo of complaints about Russian interference in both the 2016 presidential and the 2018 midterm elections, one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights and urban advocacy organizations decried efforts by foreign agents to use social media outlets to suppress voting turnout among black Americans.

In its State of Black America 2019 report, released Monday morning at a news conference in Washington, D.C., the National Urban League (NUL) said that state-sponsored Russian activists fed into the nation’s simmering racial antagonism in an effort to tamp down black voters’ confidence and dissuade voting participation.

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May 9, 2019
Warren makes pitch to black voters with policy roadmap

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is making a pitch to voters of color with a policy agenda focused on lower-income Americans and communities that have faced discrimination.

In an essay for the National Urban League's State of Black America report, Warren touted her efforts to expand access to housing, implement a wealth tax and cut down on government corruption.

"The homeownership gap has led to a staggering [racial] wealth gap," Warren wrote. "I believe that the federal government has a central role to play in reversing this damage caused in large part by decades of government-sanctioned discrimination. That’s why I introduced legislation to produce more than three million affordable housing units and bring down rents."

"I’ve proposed dealing with federal redlining by providing down payment grants to people living in formerly redlined and currently lower-income areas," the senator continued. "It would be a significant start in acknowledging—and starting to reverse—a long history of housing discrimination."

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