Christian Congresswoman Cori Bush has visited the Urban League Campus to ensure that the Black Communities across the region are getting the support they needed.
On her official Twitter account, Congresswoman Bush has tweeted her visit to the Urban League Campus in the north of St. Louis with the organization’s President Michael P. McMillan to examine how they can effectively collaborate to benefit Black communities around the area.
Also mentioned in the same tweet is that their cooperation is important to ensuring that St. Louis has access to the resources it requires.
Congresswoman Cori Bush
According to her official website, Christian Congresswoman Cori Bush is a certified nurse, a community activist, an organizer, a single mother, and an ordained minister serving the people of St. Louis.
Congresswoman Bush, as mentioned on the same website, is spending her first term in the United States House of Representatives as the representative of Missouri's 1st Congressional District.
It is also mentioned on the same website that she is Missouri's first Black woman and nurse; the first woman to represent Missouri's 1st Congressional District, and the first activist from the Black Lives Matter movement elected to the United States Congress.
According to the same website, the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation has honored Congresswoman Cori Bush with the 2015 "Woman of Courage" Award. It is also stated that Congresswoman Cori Bush was selected as Top Nurse in June of the year 2019, by the International Nurses Association.
In line with that, it is also stated that Congresswoman Bush earned the Jefferson City NAACP's coveted "Trailblazer Award" in October 2020, and the Black Rep's Frankie Muse Freeman Spirit Award in November 2020.
Referring to the same website, Congresswoman Bush will do everything she can to ensure that every single individual in her district, their country, and the globe has a good life.
Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis
According to the official website of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, the main mission of the Urban League is to enable African Americans and others in the region to achieve economic self-sufficiency, social equality, and civil rights.
Referring to the same website, it is also mentioned that The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis is the primary proponent of African American empowerment and opportunity across the city of St. Louis.
As per the same website, it is also mentioned that the organization sees an area in which all people are respected members of the community, are able to adequately support themselves and their families, live in vibrant and thriving communities, and share in the region's wealth and well-being.
Everyone, according to the same website is invited to join the Urban League and be part of the organization’s goal of being the change they wish to see in their neighborhood.
In line with that, it is also mentioned that one can participate in the initiative to assist St. Louis households in achieving economic self-sufficiency.
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, as per the same website wants compassionate, skilled, and giving individuals to assist in carrying out the mission and goals of the organization.
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