Local and state officials and water industry stakeholders testified at a Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Water hearing on lead pipe replacement efforts and improvements t…
426 viewsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and several of the nation’s mayors spoke at the National League of Cities 2021 Congressional City Conference. Speaker Pelosi discussed the benefits of the A…
238 viewsPete Buttigieg, transportation secretary nominee and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, spoke at a U.S. Conference of Mayors discussion on Biden administration transportation and infrastru…
3,796 viewsHoward University Afro-American Studies Professor Joshua Myers provided a history of the 1989 Howard University student protest, which closed the operations of the school for three days in o…
2,296 viewsThe Center for American Progress hosted a virtual event with Democratic mayors to discuss the impact of coronavirus pandemic and recent civil unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, a B…
213 viewsThe Institute of the Black World 21st Century hosted a national town hall meeting on gentrification at the New Jersey Institute for Technology in Newark. Speakers included economist Julianne…
1,494 views2018 is the 50th anniversary of civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael’s election as chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and his founding of the Black Power movement. In…
467 viewsNewark Mayor Ras Baraka and economist Julianne Malveaux talked about the government leadership changes after the 1967 Newark rebellion.
245 viewsReverend Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders led a march on issues including voting rights, criminal justice, health care and pay equity. Following the march, a rally was held near th…
2,447 viewsBlack leaders and scholars outlined ways minority groups during a Donald Trump administration can protect such civil rights as the right to vote. They spoke at the Institute of the Black Wor…
2,039 viewsCivil Rights leaders and activists and elected officials from around the country spoke to reporters after their meeting with President Obama about community policing in the wake of recent hi…
663 viewsReverend Al Sharpton led the “Justice for All” March in Washington, D.C. following the lack of indictments in the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Isla…
4,466 viewsThe Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a forum called “Paths to Success: A Forum on Young African-American Men.” The forum featured Bill Cosby and a panel of national leaders and young people …
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