what we will come back to after i pose a question to in nolan rollins. nolan is one of 97 distinguished, well educated, a smart and passionate men and women who lead urban affiliate's across the nation. areaffiliate's leaders economic first responders. they are in the community responding to the economic crisis. nolan, in your work as president of the urban league of greater new orleans, this recession has no doubt impacted people. it is there anything that you have seen with respect to the recession as a pride issue? >> it is interesting. what is happening is we're beginning to do is destabilize norms that were there. we think about prosperity, there is always this underserved group of people that existed. they're all these programs that were developed, ways to help them move from one economic ladder to the next. what is interesting is that as our economy starts to contract and we start to destabilize these things, we're having a bit of an economic darwinism that is existing. it is existing in an unfair way. you're competing with someone who started. fu

our colleague, nolan rollins, president of the urban league of greater new orleans. writer and activist kevin powell. and the blogger and commentator kelly governor. -- goff. also i would like you to know the state of black america, if you want to read it online, it's available online for free. if you would rather, and it's your druthers, to get a hard copy, you can get hard copy for a small cost. so you can get it hard, or you can get it online, but we want you to read the state of black america. so many articles. and also, i want you to join me in offering some very special thanks to politics 365, jeff is with politics 365. for all that they've done. [applause] i want to thank the national urban league staff and the staff of the national urban league policy institute for all of their hard work this week. let's give them a big, big round of aprause. -- applause. dr. and dr. , dr. and mrs. sidney reboen and his wife, stand up, dr. reboen, one more time. the leader of howard university, the first lady of howard university. and the entire howard university community. w

our colleague, no one rollins -- nolan rollins, president of the school in new orleans. -- the urban league of greater new orleans. and writer and active as, calvin polland. and blogger and commentator, kelly goff. [applause] i would also like you to know the state of black america, if you want to read it online, is available for free. if you would rather get a hard copy, you can get a hard copy for a small cost. you can get it hardbound or online. we want you to read the state of black america. there are so manyi also want you to join me in a very special thanks to politics 365. jeff is with politics 365, for all that they've done [applause] i want to thank the urban league staff and the staff of the urban league policy institute. let's give them a big round of applause. [applause] dr. and doctor, dr. and mrs. sidney rabon and his wife. stand up one more time. [applause] the leader of howard university and his wife. we want to thank again at&t for being our sponsor this year. let's give them a big, big hand. [applause] also, to all of theyp's, you came out in large numbers, you set