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New Orleans Urban League Lighting The Road To Freedom Data Around Town Page 8 “The People’s Paper” February 23 – March 7, 2008 41st Year Volume 37 www.ladatanews.com New Orleans Urban League Moving Forward Newsmaker Trailblazer Tavis Comes of the Month to NOLA Burnell Moliere Page 4 Page 7 Photos by Victor Holt Page 2 February 23 - March 7, 2008 Cover Story www.ladatanews.com New Orleans Urban League Moving Forward New Orleans Urban League President Nolan Rollins with the NUL Young Professionals and other community supporters. By Edwin Buggage Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Whitney Young, the National Urban League of Greater New Orleans . and their present CEO former New Orleans Mayor As a native of Baltimore, Maryland he worked as It is one of the oldest and largest community Marc Morial . While locally, people such as the late Senior Vice-President of Economic and Community based organizations in the country . Since 1910 the Clarence Barney, Harvey Britton and Edith Jones Development of the Baltimore branch of the organi- National Urban League has led the fight against over the years have fought for fairness in employ- zation while simultaneously holding office as Presi- discrimination, and has been a vigilant advocate ment and opportunities . dent of the NUL Young Professionals . of every American having access to the American Today as New Orleans faces the monumental This post as president was a training ground pre- Dream . task of rebuilding it can add one more soldier to the paring Rollins for his present position . He says of Over the years many great and courageous peo- names of so many who have been part of this his- this experience, “We were the activist arm of the or- ple have led and organized the masses under the toric struggle, Nolan Rollins . ganization, NUL actually runs programs, but what Urban League’s banner . On the national front, A . He is the new President of the local chapter of we did was to go into communities and find volun- Continued next page. DATA NEWS WEEKLY INSIDE DATA 616 Barrone Street, Suite 584, New Orleans, LA 70113 Phone: (504) 821-7421 | Fax: (504) 821-7622 editorial: [email protected] | advertising: [email protected] Terry B. Jones Contributors Contributing Cover Story . 2 Data Zone . 8 CEO/Publisher Edwin Buggage Photographers Glenn Jones Tre Connerly Julie Plonk Glenn Summers VP Advertising Benjamin Todd Jealous Newsmaker . 4 National News . 12 Common Ground & Marketing Cheryl Mainor AP Newswire Edwin Buggage Lawrence Martin NNPA Newswire State & Local . 6 @Issue . 14 Editor-in-Chief Xxavier T. Editorial Submissions Cheryl Mainor NNPA News Service datanewseditor@ bellsouth.net Managing Editor Art Direction Advertising Inquiries & Production Trailblazer . 7 News . 15 Distribution datanewsad@ Glenn Jones MainorMedia.com bellsouth.net Please call (504) 284-3840 for subscription information. 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Not responsible for publishing or return of unsolicited manuscripts or photos. www.ladatanews.com Cover Story February 23 - March 7, 2008 Page 3 Cover Story, Continued from page 2. teers to help with things such as have gotten ourselves to the point is an advocate of autonomy and mentoring or teaching financial where access is not the problem accountability from its local lead- literacy and other things that it’s not an issue if can we sit at ers . “He has stated that it would would be helpful to the commu- lunch counter’s or go to certain be the local people who make de- nity .” “We would facilitate, build schools, it’s now can we afford to cisions about who the leaders of and nurture those kinds of rela- purchase the store or restaurant, their organization should be, and tionships with communities .” can we afford to send our kids he has been very open about giv- Hurricane Katrina has left a to these schools .” “So it’s really ing me access saying that what- city with a void in many areas, a about how do we empower our ever I need he is there for me, but fact not lost on Rollins as he talks folks economically in order to re- his expectation at the end of the about why he choose to come to alize the fight that everyone has day is for me to run the organiza- the Crescent City . “I think this gotten us up to socially at this tion locally .” is the place to be because the point .” So with this change in leader- city needs so many things right Rollins since coming on board ship, the young and vibrant No- now .” “If you are in the business in August of last year has been lan Rollins has focused his eye of change then New Orleans is in talks with many of the local on being an advocate and help- a place where we need soldiers elected and as civil rights leaders ing minorities become part of the who are about fighting the righ- and says that the meetings have power equation and on providing teous fight; it is not just about New Orleans Urban League CEO & President Nolan Rollins been productive and he looks a set of solutions for some of the rebuilding bricks and mortar, it’s forward to working with them problems of the city in the days about rebuilding families .” Add- for them as well so that they can the movement working together on initiatives to move the city in a to come . And he feels that the ing, “This is the opportunity of be in better positions to do more being the key to moving minori- positive direction . While Rollins National Urban League, which a lifetime to rebuild a city, not to for their children, because to help ties forward, “I think that if we leads the organization at the lo- is nearly a century old, is still rel- just where it was, but to where the children we need to build bet- look at the bigger picture I be- cal level, he answers to National evant and will continue to be so, it’s going to be and I think his- ter communities .” lieve that the NAACP or the NUL President Marc Morial . He says and it is here to stay . The Greater tory will write well of the people While education is important cannot do what it does without he has talked with him on several New Orleans Urban League is and the community folks who are Rollins sees the need for econom- people brining attention to issues occasions about the challenges ready to lead the charge and face engaged in this work and I think ic development and opportunities at the grassroots level ”. Stressing that face the city . “I think that the challenges of rebuilding the this is a great opportunity I be- for African-Americans and minor- the importance of economics he Marc Morial was a breath of fresh city and making it greater than it lieve to do some good for a lot of ity businesses being an essen- says, “But the economic piece air into the organization .” But he was before and where minorities people .” tial component of their program of the puzzle is the most essen- says that although he may offer can participate at every level . Rollins has been in the city at the Urban League as well . “I tial right now, because I feel we guidance to the organization, he of New Orleans for six months think also our focus needs to be and is still amazed at the amount empower minority business and of wreckage remains and the encourage them to do business amount of damage the city in- in the region and be part of this curred . “Neither is the written rebuilding process and move the word nor the pictures can do jus- city forward .” tice to what actually happened or Before coming to New Or- is happening here; you have to be leans Rollins oversaw 2 5. billion on the ground you have to go to dollars in contracts and through the Ninth Ward, Lakeview and the Urban League helped minor- other parts of the city, because ity owned businesses get a piece what I saw on TV is magnified by of the economic pie which in his a million and that’s just scratch- opinion is important as economics ing the surface ”. “There is so is the next frontier of civil rights much work to be done and we at in his mind . “I helped to make the Urban League are ready to available contracts for these busi- do whatever we have to do to be nesses so we could keep some of agents of change .” the monies coming in and circu- Under his guidance Rollins lating inside our communities be- says they will focus on several key cause if we are not empowering areas: youth and education cen- ourselves economically then we 5BLF5JNFUP4IBSF ters, early childhood education cannot turn around some of the and after school programs . But pressing issues that effect our A LITTLE HISTORY. he says that education does not communities .” Black History Month is about discovery. And with routes from the Carolinas to New York, simply start and stop at the school The new chief of the New Or- Florida to DC, and all points in between, Amtrak® makes it possible to discover history in any house, but that it is important to leans Urban League feels that part of the country. Relax in roomy Coach seats, grab a bite to eat from the dining car, or take also educate parents, “We believe economics is more than just the in the views from the lounge car. that if we are going to provide new frontier of civil rights, but students with a good education goes further to say it is the now Amtrak is the perfect way to connect with family as you reflect on the past and build we have to provide their parents frontier, but he feels that social possibilities for the future.
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