Authors/Essays

Ensure our Communities are Heard, We Must Ensure They are Empowered

Kofi Amoo-Gottfried
Chief Marketing Officer, DoorDash

Communities of color across the U.S. face barriers to access - including experiencing food insecurity, lack of economic opportunity, and obstacles to obtaining information - that impact how they engage in the democratic process. 

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Our Nation’s Housing Crisis Is a Threat to Our Democracy

Congresswoman Maxine Waters
D-CA 43rd District

During the March on Washington, millions arrived in our nation’s capital to demand decent and equal housing and sustain the fight for economic inclusion for Black

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Restoring Honor to the U.S. Senate

Senator Chuck Schumer
Majority Leader of the United States Senate, D-NY

The story of democracy in America has been a long and arduous march towards universal suffrage. That march—advanced by generations who have protested, sacrificed, and even died in the struggle for freedom—has not always been linear; moments of progress have often been met with stretches of backlash.

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COVID-19 And The Urban League Movement

Dr. Silas Lee
Pollster, Trial Consultant, and Sociologist

Sociologists have described the socialization process as an ongoing endeavor of citizens adjusting to traditional and new social norms with usually consistent behaviors or expected beginning and end dates. 

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Choosing Democracy: The Importance of Federal Courts in Protect Voting Rights

Damon T. Hewitt
President and Executive Director, Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

For generations, the protection and advancement of voting rights have been viewed as a critical role of the federal courts.

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Voter Restoration as a Blueprint for Fighting Disenfranchisement

Sean Morales-Doyle
Acting Director, Voting Rights, Democracy, Brennan Center for Justice

Today in America, the right to vote is under assault. Following a presidential election in which voters of color turned out in record numbers, state legislatures rushed to pass an unprecedented wave of laws last year restricting access to voting.

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January 6th: Protecting the Future of our Democracy After a Historic Attack on our Capitol

Congressman Bennie Thompson
D-MS 2nd District

One of the things that concerns me most in the aftermath of January 6th is that the lies that led up to the violence of that day haven’t gone away.

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Georgia Goddam: Why Southern Organizing is the Essential Guide to Defending Democracy and Building the New America

Nsé Ufot
Chief Executive Officer, The New Georgia Project

On January 5, 2021—after traveling thousands of miles on Georgia's highways and backroads and countless conversations with voters—I watched a son of Savannah and the former Chair of the New Georgia Project's Board of Directors, Raphael Warnock, become the first Black U.S. Senator from the State of Georgia.

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From the President's Desk

Marc H. Morial
President & CEO, National Urban League

Bragging to donors that her organization secretly drafted voter suppression bills for state legislatures, using operatives to disguise the source and create a "grassroots vibe," Heritage Action for America Executive Director Jessica Anderson gushed, "Honestly, nobody even noticed." 

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Investing in Our Communities, Our Climate, and Our Future

Rudolph Wynter
President, National Grid NY

You don’t have to look hard to find evidence of enduring racial inequities affecting Black America. The pandemic exposed disparities in healthcare, access to technology and other conditions that affect economic mobility in disadvantaged communities.

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