Rahsaan Hall

Inside the 219-year-old African Meeting House, where Frederick Douglass once thundered against slavery and Black families built their own schools as acts of defiance, community leaders gathered this week to warn against what they call an effort to erase America’s full history.

In alliance with his compliant foot soldiers on Capitol Hill and emboldened by a Supreme Court majority bending to his wishes, Donald Trump is using his second term in office to create an upside-down Alice in Wonderland government where civil rights become civil wrongs and the strength of diversity becomes a weakness.

During its January 2025 annual meeting, the Urban League’s Eastern Massachusetts president, Rahsaan Hall, shared some of the new changes happening within the organization, along with its 2024 accomplishments.

Juneteenth marks our country’s second Independence Day. That fact in itself calls on us to remember, reflect, and recommit to the principles of our democracy - liberty and justice for all - but ones that we have never fully embodied.

For the past year, Rahsaan D. Hall has been transitioning from advocating for people whose civil rights have been violated to overseeing social services designed to uplift the region’s Black residents as president and CEO of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts.

The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts marked the end of one era and the beginning of another last week as they elected a new chair at the group’s 104th annual board meeting.

The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts has chosen Rahsaan D. Hall as the 104-year-old organization’s new president and chief executive officer, beginning June 5.