Hugh Bernard Price (born 1941) was 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 Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".
Price is currently a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.
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