November 7, 2008 – 4:10 pm
Originally featured in the Los Angeles Sentinel on November 16, 2008.
With the enormous bailouts that the federal government provided over the past several months to myriad sectors of our economy, here’s a new twist: How about some relief for the nation’s not for profit and social service sector?
Now, perhaps the idea sounds spurious or even [...]
October 27, 2008 – 10:02 pm
Blair H. Taylor, President & CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League, testified at September 9, 2008 hearing held by the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Mr. Taylor’s testimony was as follows:
Good morning. Thank you to the Commission for allowing this important testimony to occur.
Many of the panelists have described [...]
October 1, 2008 – 10:30 am
Originally featured in the LA Times on July 17, 2008.
The cover of the New Yorker magazine this week drove home a stark reality that both columnist Tim Rutten and The Times editorial board missed: Although many Americans appear to be ready for an African American president, the question remains as to whether America itself is [...]
On Tuesday, April 29, 2008, Blair H. Taylor, President & CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League, testified before the Federal Reserve in support of Bank of America Corp.’s proposed $4 billion acquisition of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. The two-day hearing regarding the acquisition took place at the Los Angeles branch of the Federal [...]
This nation is mired in a housing market collapse. This nation is on the brink of a severe economic recession. This nation is faced with the largest gaps between rich and poor since the great depression. This nation is facing crumbling infrastructure, schools that do not work, and a rapidly deteriorating position [...]
February 7, 2008 – 4:17 pm
This past week the teachers and parents of Crenshaw High voted in favor of the school entering the Innovation Division of Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD’s effort to place select schools on a pathway toward localized governance and control.
The chorus for change was overwhelming: More than 80 percent of all the teachers and faculty [...]
This past week, the National Urban League held its 2007 Annual Conference in St. Louis. Among the more than 5,000 attendees at the four day event were African American leaders from all across the nation.
At one point during the conference, 2008 United States Presidential candidates addressed attendees. In the forum, each candidate had 20-minutes [...]
November 21, 2006 – 9:36 am
I am deeply disturbed by the outrageous video footage of Michael Richards released yesterday. It clearly reveals a disturbed, angry and very troubled man. While I am certainly glad he finally apologized, I do not think an apology alone will suffice in this case. I call on Mr. Richards to immediately reach [...]
November 10, 2006 – 9:20 am
More than two score ago, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King traveled to Mecca and India respectively. Their travels drastically changed both of their philosophies and proved to be a central element in their respective recognition that the seemingly vast world in which we live is actually very finite and interconnected.
In King’s case, his [...]
August 24, 2006 – 11:18 am
In 1965, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York wrote a treatise about the condition of the two Americas (titled: “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action“). His piece, which was a rather sobering critique of the state of the Black family, Black America and greater America itself, was viewed as quite controversial [...]
