I'm Marc Morial. Proud to serve as president of the National Urban League. And I'm also proud to share my story of what I know and my involvement with the Legal Defense Fund. Maybe I should go way back to the beginning. As a boy, my father was what was called an ink fund local attorney. Working along with A.P. Tureaud, my father, Ernest Morial, was one of New Orleans leading civil rights lawyers. Working at that time with Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley and many of the other great lawyers to challenge segregation statutes and ordinances in New Orleans and in Louisiana. My father and A.P. Tureaud were the lawyers for the LDF in Louisiana in those days. And they brought suits to desegregate the schools, to desegregate lunch counters, water fountains, municipal parks and all sorts of public facilities in those days. So I grew up with great respect, not only for LDF, but for civil rights lawyers and the role they played as social engineers. It inspired me to want to become a lawyer. What I saw from my father and A.P. Tureaud, and their work as civil rights lawyers, as a boy inspired me to want to be a lawyer in a very, very powerful and profound way. As a young lawyer, I first worked with the Legal Defense Fund on the Chishom versus Louisiana case. That case is a case that was brought in 1985 to challenge the apportionment lines for judicial elections in Louisiana. We brought the case all the way to the United States Supreme Court on the issue of whether the Voting Rights Act applied to judicial elections. In a 6-3 ruling, we won. In that case, I served as one of the named plaintiffs in the case, and as named plaintiff organized the work of the plaintiffs and the public relations effort and the communications effort around the case. Chishom and its companion case Clark transformed the Louisiana judiciary such that Louisiana now has more Black judges per capita than any other state in the nation. As a lawyer, I also worked with the Legal Defense Fund's, Judith Reed on a case called Black Association of New Orleans Firefighters versus the City of New Orleans. In that case, we challenged the failure of the city of New Orleans and its Civil Service Commission to promote African Americans to fire captain, the first supervisory position in the fire department. I also worked with the Legal Defense Fund in 1986. The firefighters case was brought in 1985 on a number of cases which challenged voter purges, which were taking place in Louisiana in those days. In that case, I was one of the cooperating attorneys on the case. Mostly, I had an opportunity to work with the Legal Defense Fund in very, very exciting ways. The lawyers were always the very best lawyers, the very best civil rights lawyers. Certainly, since becoming president of the National Urban League, we are now represented by the Legal Defense Fund in a very important case challenging three of Donald Trump's anti-diversity, equity and inclusion executive orders. I want to salute the Legal Defense Fund for the incredible work its lawyers have done and continue to do now under Janai Nelson's leadership. They're excellent. They're passionate. They are some of the best lawyers anywhere in the country. And may their work continue to make a difference in the lives of so many.