For Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the North's civil rights story has lived too long in the shadows. The noted civil rights organization's new museum in Harlem is its push to bring that history into the light — permanently.
Why it matters: The Urban Civil Rights Museum will be New York City's first museum dedicated to the American civil rights movement, and uniquely focused on the North — housing discrimination, policing, education, economic exclusion and the grassroots organizing that shaped modern Black political power.
The Trump administration will lay out its construction plan for the new White House ballroom at a planning commission meeting next month.
Why it matters: The "information presentation" is the first step of the National Capital Planning Commission's review process, and it will be the first time commissioners get to question the president's controversial plans after bulldozing the East Wing.
