Washington – Large national organizations representing African-Americans and Latinos should enter a “new level of cooperation” to address common problems, former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb told a National Urban League conference Friday.
Webb called on the Urban League to join with the National Council of La Raza, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in what he called a “new partnership” on such issues as health care, education and the economy.
“What I am proposing is that there be a new level of coordination, not just a single initiative or press conference, but a real and sustained coordination of resources and agendas,” he said.
Webb called for a series of regional summits across the nation.
“Consider, for example, what we could do if we were to focus our collective efforts on bringing affordable, high-quality health care to the tens of millions of Americans who lack health insurance, and the millions more who struggle to pay for it,” Webb said.
The conference in Washington ends Sunday.
