Hugh Price | |
Birth Name: | Hugh Bernard Price |
Birth Date: | 22 November 1941 |
Birth Place: | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Education: | Amherst College (BA) Yale University (LLB) |
Hugh Bernard Price (born 1941) is a U.S. activist. He served as the President of the National Urban League from 1994 to 2003.
Price is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Price is a member of the advisory board of the Future of American Democracy Foundationhttp://thefutureofamericandemocracyfoundation.org/index.html, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPage.asp?series=127, "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy."
Price was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995[1] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.[2] He received the Westchester County Trailblazers Award in 2014.[3]
Price is currently a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.