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HUGH
B. PRICE: BIO
(MaximsNews.com,
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
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B. Price, a leading spokesman for African Americans,
is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is an expert in
Education, Civil Rights, Equal Opportunity, and Criminal Justice and he
was the president of the National Urban League from 1994 to 2003.
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The Urban League,
established in 1910, is the nation's oldest and largest community-based
movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and
social mainstream.
The mission of
the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic
self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights. With a headquarters in
New York City
, there are over 100 local affiliates of the National Urban League located
in 35 states and the
District of Columbia
providing direct services to more than 2 million people nationwide through
programs, advocacy and research.
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Price,
a lawyer with extensive experience in community development and public policy
issues, intensified the organization's work in three broad areas: in education
and youth development, individual and community-wide economic empowerment,
affirmative action and the promotion of inclusion as a critical foundation for
securing
America's future as a multi-ethnic democracy.
Among
Price’s most notable achievements was establishing the League's Institute of
Opportunity and Equality in Washington, DC, which conducted a research and
public policy analysis of urban issues and the Campaign for African American
Achievement, a community mobilization and advocacy initiative created to raise
awareness and promote the importance of achievement through the formation of the
National Achievers Society, Doing the Right Thing recognition in local
communities and the Nation Urban League's Scholarship Program.
Price
is a former vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation; and previously
he was the senior vice president of WNET/Thirteen TV the PBS station in
New York. He had also been on the
Editorial Board of The New York Times; and the executive director of the
Black Coalition of New Haven.
He
was born and raised in Washington, the son of a
Howard
University
trained doctor. During his childhood he witnessed and became a part of many
changes in
Washington, as the schools and neighborhoods became integrated.
Price
graduated from
Amherst
College
and
Yale
Law
School
in 1966. He is currently on the boards of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
Verizon, Mayo Clinic and the Jacob Burns Film Center
Hugh Price's articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and journals,
including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Phi Delta Kappan, Washingtonian,
Chronicle of Philanthropy, Education Week, Chronicle of Higher Education, and
Review of Black Political Economy. He
has also contributed articles to MaximsNews.com.
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