Urban League of Greater Miami | Empowering people, changing lives

Empowering people, changing lives

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Urban League

Celebrating the dream, and challenging ourselves

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Happy holidays from the Urban League of Greater Miami!

Development Revolution

Sign the Petition: Tell Congress to Preserve Free Tutoring!

Join T. Willard Fair and the Miami Urban League in calling on Congress to preserve after-school tutoring programs right here in Florida! Full Article

I Am Empowered: Take the Pledge

The Urban League of Greater Miami is asking 50,000 Miamians to take The Pledge, promising to help guide, nurture and encourage the children of Liberty City. Full Article

From CNN contributor Roland S. Martin: (CNN) — In November 2010, I watched “HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” and saw a piece on the hazing antics at several historically black colleges and fraternities. I took to Twitter to share my thoughts on [Read More]

Education

Lines Grow Long for Free School Meals, Thanks to Economy

From the New York Times: Millions of American schoolchildren are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents, many once solidly middle class, have lost jobs or homes during the economic crisis, qualifying their families for the decades-old safety-net program. The number of students receiving subsidized lunches rose to 21 million [Read More]

Jeb Bush: Public schools “mired in the past”

Reducing Crime

More police to patrol Miami’s troubled Liberty Square public housing

From the Miami Herald: The Miami Police Department reassigned eight police officers and a sergeant to patrol the troubled Liberty Square public housing project, marking the first time a team of cops is assigned specifically to one housing development, interim chief Manuel [Read More]