Within a week after criminal charges were filed against police officers who arrested and transported Freddie Gray last year, the CEO of the Greater Baltimore Urban League publicly proclaimed, “To heal our city, we cannot focus exclusively on law enforcement.” Next week the Baltimore chapter will host the National Urban League conference, with the theme: “Save Our Cities: Education, Jobs & Justice.” This hour, we’ll focus on jobs. The Baltimore Urban League is opening a center for entrepreneurship with mentoring, workshops and a micro-business incubator. The goal is to help residents not just find a job, but start their own businesses, expand, and hire others. We’ll speak to Urban League leaders, and to a business owner whose online company has grown into a brick-and-mortar space at Eastpoint Mall.
Our guests: J. Howard Henderson, president of the Greater Baltimore Urban League; William Honablew, director of the Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr. Center for Entrepreneurship; Lisa Phillips, owner of Celeebrate Us.
More information about the National Urban League Conference available here.
