#Urban League

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The December 1925 issue of Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life. Published by the National Urban League, it was known for fostering literary culture during the Harlem Renaissance. Cover by Aaron Douglas.

Photo: Ellen Lupton Instagram

[africanamericanreports]

Since its establishment in 1944, the Urban League of Union County has remained steadfast in its mission to uplift African Americans and other marginalized communities, striving for economic self-reliance, equal opportunities, and social justice. Through its comprehensive programs, the non-profit has empowered countless individuals and families, creating positive change within a community that has done nothing but reinvest into the ULOUC what it has gained from the organization's work. #TheUrbanLeague #MarcMorial #UrbanLeagueOfUnionCounty

[forever70s]

Whitney Moore Young Jr. in 1967. Young was a trained social worker, then civil rights activist, and ultimately the executive director of the National Urban League. He primarily lobbied to end employment discrimination and greatly expanded the National Urban League.

[sittingupwiththedead]

A dcxdp fic that borrows from classic ghost stories and urban legends. The Justice League Responds to a disaster that appears to have emptied a town of it's residents. Or has it? A story out of order.

Notes:

You ever have a moment where you're like "Girlie write the story you wish to see in the world" ? This, this is that story. If you have any suggestions of ghosts stories or urban legends I won't guarantee I'll use them but I'd love to hear them.

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So um... I'm writing a fan fic. Yay! Please enjoy

[urban-nocturne]

"Sheesh! I'm not that crazy!"

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Fútbot

Debut: Mario Strikers: Battle League

Today we will be talking about famous bad game Mario Strikers: Battle League! I do not care about sports games even if they do contain Shy Guy, but geez, I'm sorry to those of you who do. You just can't catch a break.

But maybe there's hope? Maybe a brand new character, unique to this game, could spark some intrigue? Surely a one-off robot in a Mario game would at least appeal to ME, right? RIGHT?

Wrong! I think Fútbot is stupendously mid. Note that I called it a "robot". Not even a "funny robot". That's how you know I'm serious! As a design, Fútbot has some interesting things going on, I suppose. A propeller for a lower body, a puppety mouth, and a glowing sphere of a "tongue". But it just doesn't do it for me! My favorite part of this character is the cute name.

Fútbot simply feels like a mascot and nothing else. This could be the mascot for anything. An antivirus software. A local TV channel that shows both football and The Big Bang Theory reruns. A week-long STEM summer camp for 8-12 year olds. Fútbot could be anything, and so it feels like nothing.

Fútbot is here to help you and give advice, and I suppose I do like that they made a new character for the role! I have been hard on Fútbot, but I would have NOTHING to say about this game without its presence. I would rather it be here! I also think it's neat that Fútbot is a representative of the Galactic Strikers Federation, implying a bit of new Outer Lore to Mario's universe. I COULD say that it makes sense it wouldn't look like a Mario character, since it's from a galactic organization, not limited to Mario's planet... but we know very well that there are Mario enemies all throughout Mario's galaxy and beyond! No excuse!

There is one great thing about Fútbot. Something I've been saving for the very end. Let's look closely.

These eyes. Bright, glowing cyan, with concentric rings within. They're not an exact match, but they absolutely bring to mind...

URBAN STINGBY LARVA! My beloved! Yeah! Woohoo! Who cares about foot bort or whatever its name is! This has become an Urban Stingby Larva post now!

Wiggle wiggle squirm and squiggle

Funny larva makes me giggle

Instantaneous pupation

Urban Stingby Larva Nation!

[petervintonjr]

"As black America approaches the 21st century, our capacity or our failure to build a solid bridge . . . of works will determine whether millions of young blacks already with us or yet unborn will cross over into the new century, or fall into the abyss."

Another name you almost certainly didn't know: M. (Moses) Carl Holman, civil rights activist, writer, and poet. Born in 1919 St. Louis, Holman showed an early gift for writing, and at the age of 19 won a scriptwriting award from a popular syndicated radio program. He graduated magna cum laude from Lincoln University and went on to acquire Master's degrees from the University of Chicago and from Yale. While at Yale he published his first collection of poems, and began regularly writing articles for various newspapers and magazines on income inequity, urban poverty, literacy, and other issues important to Black Americans. In 1962 he taught English at Clark College in Atlanta, giving him a front-row seat to key events in the earliest days of the civil rights movement. As some of his students participated in sit-ins and the Freedom Rides, he found himself appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, of which he eventually became deputy director in 1966.

In 1968 Ebony magazine named Holman as one of the 100 Most Influential Black Americans. That same year Holman published what is probably his best-known work: The Baptizin', a play which won first prize in the National Community Theater Festival. In addition to multiple collections of poems, Holman also published a definitive overview of the civil rights movement in the U.S., from 1965 to 1975.

Perhaps most significantly, in 1971 Holman was named Vice President of the National Urban Coalition. This organization had re-formed in 1967 in the wake of the so-called "long, hot summer" of racial strife and injustices. During this time Holman's singular talent for delivering quiet and polite, but still powerful, speeches came to the fore and he jumpstarted a great many local housing, education, job training, and economic development programs aimed at disadvantaged Black and Hispanic communities.

In his later years Holman forcefully addressed the issue of "dual literacy" for Black children --emphasizing that such students not only needed to be well-versed not only in the fundamentals such as reading, writing, and public speaking; but also in math, science, and technology. His 1988 obituary notes that Holman "had an uncanny ability to form a coalition out of the most diverse elements, and it was often said that the key to his ability to do this was the fact that he never appeared to have an agenda for himself."

(Teachers: Need some resources to engage your students this Black History Month? I'll send you a pile of these trading cards, no cost, no obligation. Just give me a mailing address and let me know how many students in your class. No strings attached, no censorship, no secret-relaying-of-names to Abbott or DeSantis or HuckaSanders.)

[hitreasures]

Urban the angel you are 😇😈

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

The cover of Opportunity, a publication of the National Urban League, January 1925. Cover design by Winold Reiss.

Photo: NYPL

[nugothrhythms]

The old and the new performing together in Southern California again

[jgthirlwell]

Just uploaded a performance of JG Thirlwell with LEMUR instruments and string quartet, performing live at the Thirlwell's composer spotlight concert at the Whitney Museum on November 2 2007.

LEMUR is an acronym for 'League of Musical Urban Robots', which were instruments powered by servo motors and triggered by midi signals, including many percussion 'robots', a guitar-bot and a xylo-bot. The instruments were designed and built by Eric Singer. The musicians in the string quartet were Leyna Marika Papach – violin, Elena Moon Park – violin, Karen Waltuch – viola and Okkyung Lee – cello.

"L'espion qui a pleuré" is a composition by JG Thirlwell which was originally released in the Steroid Maximus album Ectopia (Ipecac Records, 2002).

While you are there please subscribe to the JG Thirlwell YouTube channel. More to come!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

Three major American civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Washington, D.C., against the Trump administration, challenging executive orders that gut diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and erase federal recognition of transgender and nonbinary people. The lawsuit, National Urban League v. Trump, alleges that these orders violate constitutional protections and pose an existential threat to marginalized communities. The National Urban League, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and AIDS Foundation Chicago are leading the legal challenge, represented by the Legal Defense Fund and Lambda Legal. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that the executive orders violate the First and Fifth Amendments, restrict free speech, and disproportionately harm Black people, LGBTQ+ people, and other vulnerable populations. The complaint challenges three executive orders: “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” which eliminates diversity-based hiring initiatives; “Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,” which cuts funding for organizations addressing racial inequities; and “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which strips federal recognition of transgender identities. The National Urban League emphasized that its workforce development programs—many federally funded—are being unjustly targeted. “These executive orders are malicious, unlawful, unconstitutional, and are a direct assault on 70 years of progress that this nation has made,” said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League. “These executive orders challenge and seek to thwart and undermine our ability to do the work that is essential to our mission and protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.”

Three of Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at trans people and DEIA programs (14148, 14151, and 14168) are the target of a lawsuit from three civil rights groups in National Urban League v. Trump: National Urban League, National Fair Housing Alliance, and AIDS Foundation Chicago.

[5ystemic]

[pinkrosealice]

I think one of my major goals for 2025, apart from you know surviving the current sociopolitical/economic hellscape, is to actually start writing a fanfic idea / setting that I had stirring up in the back of my mind for a while now.

It would be a comic book crossover / fusion AU of Marvel, DC, a little bit of Dark Horse and Image comic characters and ideas, and just a scattering of elements from some animated series and novels.

Inspirations for this fic that might help give a sort of hint at the vibe I'm going for include :

*The Amalgamverse comics

*The Trilogy of Blade movies

*Mike Mignola's entire body of work really, but more specifically his two Batman Elseworlds comics.

*Super old school runs of Doctor Strange

*The New 52 Dark Justice / Justice League Dark run

*Stan Lee's Just Imagine DC one shots

*Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing

*The Spider Verse, not just the movies but the original comic book events and the Shattered Dimensions game

*The Mystery Kids crossover fandom

*Peach Momoko's Ultimate X-Men and Demon Days

*The work of Greg Weisman, especially Gargoyles and Spectacular Spider-Man

*And the very very small amount of ideas from the DC x DP fandom that I actually think are interesting / tolerable.

Setting / theme / tone would be Urban Fantasy with mild or light Cosmic Horror elements. Most if not all superpowers and abilities are magical and psychic in nature.

The protagonist would be a blind Peter Parker with the powers of Madame Web. The primary pairing would be spideyvenom + symbrock. The Venom symbiote would be a demonic / spiritual entity of living darkness, which it kind of already is in the comics but it's not just that, instead of an alien.

I have started to write bits of disparate scenes to try and get a sense of how I want to approach dialogue and tone and I'm slowly throwing together a lore bible/worldbuilding document.

If anyone is interested in this incredibly self-indulgent bit of nerdish delusion please feel free to comment on this post or shoot me a message! Talking about it and talking about my ideas will help me keep my interest and focus on actually writing this damn thing going!!!!!