Massie named chair
Succeeds Carl Ballton
Urban League President and CEO Blair H. Taylor has announced Noel Massie as the new chairman of the board of the 91-year-old organization. Massie, UPS president, Central California District, has served on the board since October 2010. He succeeds Carl Ballton, president of the Union Bank Foundation. Ballton headed the board from October 2008 to March 2012.
Massie will preside as the dinner chair of the League’s 39th Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Dinner on April 25.
“We are honored to welcome Noel Massie as the chair of the League’s board of directors,” said Taylor. “Noel has proven to be a staunch supporter and strong advocate for the League’s movement to effect systemic, collaborative neighborhood change.”
The Los Angeles Urban League recently held its 39th Whitney M. Young Jr. Awards Dinner honoring outstanding individuals as “Enduring Legacies.”
The dinner is the League’s annual fundraiser, designed to raise fundamental resources for the Neighborhoods@Work program, including educational support, economic literacy, job prep and placement, and advocacy on behalf of African Americans and other minorities.
Let me first say that I believe a woman should have the right to an abortion. It is the law, and each person has his or her own decision to make. However, since the court decision, Roe v. Wade, the amount of abortions in this nation have been on a steady rise. Black abortions are now at an epidemic rate, and a lot of God’s children are being snuffed out without a chance of life.
Nolan V. Rollins, the current president of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans, has been named the new president of the Los Angeles Urban League, it was announced by Noel Massie, chair of the Los Angeles Urban League board of directors. With his move to Los Angeles, Rollins becomes the seventh president of League’s 91-year-old Los Angeles affiliate. He also becomes its chief executive officer and will take over in Los Angeles after five years as president/CEO of the New Orleans affiliate. Rollins succeeds Blair H.
Even though the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and the 1960s has regularly been called the “moral movement for the soul of America,” and other such lofty names, essentially the movement was about getting the federal and state governments to enforce the laws that protected citizens from abuse by government, or the passage of new legislation in the absence of such effective protection. The movement was about law and law enforcement.
In 1921, Los Angeles was a young city trying to carve out its place in a world that was rapidly industrializing. It was also a mecca for people of different races, ethnicities and visions.
That included African Americans who left the South in droves seeking a life free of segregation, racism and bigotry. Unfortunately, some of the Whites who perpetuated those ideas and practices also moved West, and Blacks formed organizations in order to fight for their rights.
