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Many of Treasury’s recommendations for modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act would help financial institutions, not low-income communities.
American Banker: The ‘C’ in CRA should still mean something Read More »
Adam Looney looks at early results of which neighborhoods states are designating Opportunity Zones.
This Saturday there’s a Nazi Rally coming to Newnan, right down the street from where we live.
Medium: Dear white neighbor, Read More »
The Great Recession reduced the African-American homeownership rate to levels not seen since housing discrimination was legal in the 1960s.
The New York Times: Blacks still face a red line on housing Read More »
Data from the Pew Research Center show that six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the gap between whites with and without college degrees in opinions of the president was enormous.
For seven decades, “never forget” has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. But a survey found that many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened.
New York Times: Holocaust is fading from memory, survey finds Read More »
Let’s discuss the specifics of what modernization could look like, since the Treasury report chose not to.
American Banker: BankThink Grading Treasury’s CRA reform memo: ‘Incomplete’ Read More »
Critics argue that Community Reinvestment Act standards need to be more transparent, but creating more objective measures would require regulators to favor some types of loans over other
American Banker: CRA’s black box could prove difficult to open Read More »
The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.
The New York Times: Why America’s black mothers and babies are in a life-or-death crisis Read More »
Autonomous technologies can support social services programs, but delivery must always be centered around people.
SSIR: Leveraging the power of bots for civil society Read More »
Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law, the bill has failed to deliver on its key tenet: creating an integrated society.
New Yorker: The unfulfilled promise of the Fair Housing Act Read More »
African Americans in the same neighborhoods decimated by subprime lending are now being targeted with new predatory loan offerings.
The Atlantic: A house you can buy, but never own Read More »
The treasury secretary has discovered the key to Cabinet survival: flattering the boss.
Here’s what the Treasury Department’s changes would do, and wouldn’t, toward solving four major problems we have outlined in our investigation.
Reveal: Does the Trump administration’s plan to modernize anti-blight laws stack up? Read More »
A Q&A with Georgia Congressman John Lewis on how King recruited him into the civil-rights movement, what it was like to know the iconic activist, and how King’s legacy has shaped the world today.
The Atlantic: King ‘inspired me to get in trouble’ Read More »
