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The National Urban League ( NUL ), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. [ 1]
Henry J. Richardson Jr. Henry Johnson Richardson Jr. (June 21, 1902 – December 5, 1983) was a civil rights lawyer and activist, a member of the Indiana House of Representatives (1932–36), and a judge in Marion County, Indiana. He helped secure passage of Indiana's school desegregation law in 1949 and for organizing the Indianapolis Urban ...
The Indiana Black Expo and Indianapolis Urban League have brought their partnerships with Newfields "to a complete halt" due to the sudden departure of the museum's CEO, the two organizations said ...
Renamed in 2007 to honor Indianapolis Urban League founder/president Sam H. Jones, Sr., it is approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km) in length and connects Raymond Street (at Holt Road) to High School Road just west of I-465 at the former site of the 1957–2008 passenger terminal at Indianapolis International Airport.
The downtown Indiana Ave. location selected for the street mural is symbolic of both Indianapolis's Black history and its legacy of White supremacy. [4] The street, which runs in a northwest diagonal outward from the city center, began to be populated by Blacks as early as the 1860s. by the early 20th century, it was the clear center of Black culture in the city, with Black-owned business and ...
Associated Press. July 7, 2024 at 10:13 AM. Bevy Smith, Tracey Edmonds, Faith Jenkins and Lisa Price received honors from the National Urban League at Essence Festival luncheon. NEW ORLEANS (AP ...
Here are the five artists performing in Indianapolis as part of All-Star Weekend's entertainment slate. ... Keith Urban, Walker Hayes. 3 p.m. Feb. 17.
Battle of the Real HU [32] Hampton, VA. 2017. Game between Hampton and Howard. The series was played in Washington, DC in a classic format until 2016 and known as the Nation's Football Classic [35] (see below). The event was canceled after the 2017 season with Hampton joining the Big South Conference. Bayou Classic. New Orleans, LA.