Hugh Price
Live Webcast December 10, 1999, 1 p.m. ET

Urban Education

The National Urban League is a nonprofit, community-based organization headquartered in New York City. The group, formed in 1910, is dedicated to assisting African-Americans in the achievement of social and economic equality. Hugh Price has been the League's president since 1994.

Before heading the Urban League, Price was a senior officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he managed domestic initiatives in education for at-risk youth. He began his career as a neighborhood attorney in New Haven after he graduated from Yale Law School. While in Connecticut, Price also worked at an urban affairs consulting firm and as Human Resources Administrator for the City of New Haven.

Price then changed career paths and moved into journalism, writing editorials for The New York Times in the late 1970s and later for WNET/Thirteen, America's largest public television station.

Since joining the National Urban League, Price has enlarged the League's endowment, launched the historic Campaign for African-American Achievement, started the "Achievement Matters" public service campaign and revived Opportunity -- the publication of the National Urban League.