ATLANTA (NNPA) - After successfully eradicating legal barriers that prevented African Americans from enjoying basic rights as U.S. citizens, the next phase of the Civil Rights Movement must focus on economic empowerment, says the head of the National Urban League.
"As we stand here today, this issue of economic inequality and poverty must be the new and defining issue of civil rights in the 21st century," said Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League. "The fight to sit at a lunch counter was an important fight. The fight to be able to afford what was served at the lunch counter is an even more important fight today. And the fight to own the lunch counter in …
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