Blair H. Taylor | Los Angeles Urban League Blog

Blair Hamilton Taylor is the President and CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League, an affiliate of one of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations with offices in more than 100 cities. With a staff of over 300 and a budget in excess of $26 million, the Los Angeles Urban League is one of America’s largest civil rights entities.

Full Biography

First, You Have to Really Care

June 5, 2006 – 5:27 pm

The Los Angeles Times ran a front page article on June 3rd titled “A Startling Statistic at UCLA” which depicts the abysmal state of African American admissions at the University of California Los Angeles. As a graduate of UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, a former member of the Anderson School’s Alumni Board and Executive Committee, [...]

Posted in Diversity, Education, Op-ed | Comments Off

The oil that drives the two Americas

April 18, 2006 – 10:47 am

The recent press coverage of the record profits of America’s largest oil companies seemingly slipped right by most of America as if carefully lubricated by their own petroleum products. And somewhat ironically perhaps, the headlines which documented the record earnings of America’s oil companies were often positioned right above those discussing the abysmal and [...]