by Michael Lawson | Jun 3, 2022 | President Message, Advocacy, Race
In 1966, on the eve of the Summer of Love in San Francisco, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense began as a small community organization. The founders were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Under California law, it was legal to carry guns in public as long as the...
by Michael Lawson | Mar 5, 2022 | President Message, Advocacy, Politics
On February 25, President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the...
by LA Urban League | Feb 24, 2022 | Advocacy, Press Releases
Incident is Further Evidence that Capital Punishment Must End NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES (February 24, 2022) – National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial and Los Angeles Urban League President and CEO Michael A. Lawson called for the resignation of Orange...
by Michael Lawson | Feb 19, 2022 | President Message, Advocacy
Millions of football fans celebrated Super Bowl Sunday this past weekend by watching the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl by beating the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA. We congratulate the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals for making...
by Michael Lawson and Laura McGowan-Robinson | Feb 5, 2022 | President Message, Advocacy, Education, Education & Training
This week, the Los Angeles Unified School District board will consider the Black Student Excellence through Educator Diversity, Preparation, and Retention Resolution. This resolution aims to hire, train, and retain more Black educators in LAUSD schools. On behalf of...
by Michael Lawson | Nov 19, 2021 | President Message, Advocacy, Race
California houses the second largest prison population in the United States behind Texas and the largest population of people serving long-term sentences. Due to decades of tough-on-crime policies from over-zealous politicians, some of these long-term sentences are...
