Marc Morial

Janet Murguía, the CEO of UnidosUS, and Marc Morial, the CEO of the National Urban League, co-star in “Gumbo Coalition.”

‘Gumbo Coalition’ leaders: ‘We were born into a segregated America–but MLK’s dream is now being tested as never before in our lifetimes’

By Janet Murguía and Marc Morial

A customer walks into Ben’s Chili Bowl, a black owned business, on U Street during the COVID-19 pandemic June 15, 2020, in Washington, DC. – Media, activist and business initiatives to support African-American restaurant owners have been stepping up in recent weeks in the wake of the historic anti-racism movement in the US since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in his forties who was killed by a white policeman on 25 May. Numerous studies have shown that African-American entrepreneurs, particularly in the service sector such as restaurants, have suffered most severely from the economic and health crisis caused by Covid-19. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

America’s entrepreneurial equity crisis is hurting the economy

By Marc Morial and Jon Cowan