The National Urban League releases its annual report and warns that the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for Black Americans, the biggest setback since the Civil Rights Movement.The report blames policy shifts under President Donald Trump’s administration for rollbacks at the Justice Department, reforms to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and voting-law changes, and it criticizes corporate retreats from diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.Marc Morial and contributors including
Angela Alsobrooks,
Lisa Blunt Rochester,
Raphael Warnock,
Wes Moore and
Brandon Scott call for consolidated legal resistance and independent economic infrastructure while noting that investments by the Biden administration, such as the COVID-19 stimulus and infrastructure legislation, have provided relief.