New York – The National Urban League today called on Talk Radio Network to drop the Dr. Laura show from syndication, and urged host Dr. Laura Schlessinger to educate herself about racism. “The problem is not simply that Dr. Schlessinger used the ‘n-word’ repeatedly, though that is offensive enough,” National Urban League President and CEO […]
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Melanie L. Campbell Receives Woman Of Power Award
Ambassador Susan E. Rice, Angela Bassett, Roslyn Brock, and Laila Ali among honorees Washington, DC – In recognition of her outstanding contributions to civil rights, Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of Black Women’s Roundtable, received the National Urban League’s (NUL) “Women of Power Award” […]
Obama on Kagan: ‘This Is a Good Day’
ABC News’ Yunji de Nies and Sunlen Miller Report: Standing in the East Room with incoming Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, President Obama declared it “a good day.” The President joked that while the former solicitor general “may be feeling a twinge of sadness about giving up the title of ‘general,’ a cool title, I […]