Tracy Jan: Marc Morial and Hispanic Americans

tracy jan: JIM YOUNG / AFP/Getty Images By Tracy Jan The Washington Post Tues., May 2, 2017 Black and Hispanic Americans continue to lag far behind whites economically and their prospects look much worse under U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a report to be released Tuesday by the National Urban League, according to Toronto Star. Despite promises of a new deal for black America, any recent progress made toward racial equality is increasingly under threat, said Marc Morial, the league's president and chief executive. Progress made toward racial equality in the United States is threatened by Trump's presidency, according to a new report from the National Urban League. The president's incendiary rhetoric on the campaign trail has translated into discriminatory public policy, he said. Read the latest on U.S. President Donald Trump In an interview with The Post, he pointed to Trump's intent to roll back key Obama-era policies from expanding health care coverage to greater police oversight as evidence that the future for black America is precarious. The social cancer of hate continues to metastasize, thriving in a climate conducive to hostility towards religious and racial minorities, permeating even at the highest levels of national discourse and threatening to further crack our fractured nation, Morial wrote in the report. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.