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Marc H. Morial

President and CEO
National Urban League

Biography

Marc H. Morial is President and CEO of the National Urban League, the nation's largest historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization. As Mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002, Morial led New Orleans’ renaissance, and left office with a 70% approval rating. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics and African American Studies, he also holds a law degree from the Georgetown University.

 

Author's Essays

From the President’s Desk

Marc H. Morial

A democracy willing to destroy itself rather than deliver justice is a democracy in crisis.

This is the chilling reality we confront in 2025—a year that has revealed, in stark terms, the lengths to which some will go to halt the progress of Black America. The notion that we are living…

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