The Guardian: Los Angeles officers shot at Ryan Twyman 34 times. He was one of four they killed that day
Family of 24-year-old father of three, who was unarmed, speaks out on the brutality of LA sheriff ‘gangs.’
Family of 24-year-old father of three, who was unarmed, speaks out on the brutality of LA sheriff ‘gangs.’
Cori Alonso-Yoder, a lawyer with American University’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, explains how immigration restrictions in the U.S. have always been about limiting certain races and ethnicities.
CityLab: The racism behind Trump’s new ‘public charge’ immigration policy, explained Read More »
A review of the nation’s largest banks reveals that not a single female or minority sits at the helm as CEO.
HousingWire: House committee: Big bank leadership is mostly white, mostly male Read More »
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.
The Atlantic: The great land robbery Read More »
In “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description.
The New Yorker: The fight to redefine racism Read More »
Homeownership rates have slumped to levels not seen since the 1960s.
Bloomberg: For black Americans, the housing crisis isn’t over Read More »
Becoming an adult in a world facing an environmental crisis is terrifying. It’s getting tougher to stay motivated at work when it feels like there is no point. People are wondering if they should have kids anymore if they’ll be born into a hopeless world.
Vice: How Gen-Z is dealing with a looming climate apocalypse Read More »
Some Americans were left worse off after their mortgages were sold to private-equity firms by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s according to a report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which this month released a new analysis of HUD’s Distress Asset Stabilization Program.
This summer marks the 55th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act, which paved the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the expansion of civil rights in this country.
CNN News: Rashida Tlaib: How to reverse the decline in black homeownership Read More »
hould websites be accessible to everyone, including the blind?
That’s the question at the center of an ongoing lawsuit against the pizza restaurant Domino’s that was filed by a blind user in 2016 after he was unable to order pizzas through the company’s website, despite using screen reading software.
Fast Company: Domino’s Pizza is locked in a legal battle over the future of web design Read More »
Becoming an adult in a world facing an environmental crisis is terrifying. It’s getting tougher to stay motivated at work when it feels like there is no point. People are wondering if they should have kids anymore if they’ll be born into a hopeless world.
Vice: How Gen-Z is dealing with a looming climate apocalypse Read More »
The economy functions best when the central bank is free of short-term political pressures.
Wall Street Journal: America needs an independent Fed Read More »
An upcoming proposal from the Trump administration about the Fair Housing Act highlights factors impacting school segregation that go far beyond 2020 campaign debates over “busing.”
Education Week: Why a fight over Trump’s housing policy matters to school segregation Read More »
Rapid housing cost appreciation and demographic turnover is a very real and growing problem, but it is still concentrated in a few high-cost markets, and a few select neighborhoods of other cities.
Shelterforce: It doesn’t matter if your neighborhood is going to eventually gentrify Read More »
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is circulating a proposal to make it more difficult to bring discrimination claims under the Fair Housing Act.
Politico: HUD to propose more hurdles to prove housing discrimination Read More »