On Our Radar

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson could not precisely articulate what the department was doing about protecting LGBTQ people from housing discrimination after it had removed LGBTQ nondiscrimination guidelines from its website.

A report released by the Institute for Policy Studies highlights how a polarizing racial wealth divide has grown between White households and households of color over the past three decades.

Members of the white power movement set fire to a Tennessee social justice center. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

Congress members confronted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over a proposed budget increase for a program funding charter schools that quickly closed, or never opened at all.

The “whites only” signs were gone, but joblessness, dilapidated housing and intractable poverty remained.

Wells Fargo is in the midst of leadership changes, and though a good step for the company, the decision faces many new challenges.

Overall, women make about 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. For black and Latina women, the gap is bigger.

Even though there is partisan divide about the effectiveness of the current U.S. healthcare system, majority of all Americans fear rising healthcare costs.

After Maryland lawmakers override their Governor’s veto, the state has entered history by raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Even with rising wages and falling mortgage rates, Americans can’t afford a home in more than 70 percent of the country.

One week after Facebook agreed to end its microtargeting ad system for job, housing, and loan advertisement, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charges with housing discrimination.

“Candidates … are looking for ways to raise issues that are inherently about racial justice. They want to make sure they are mobilizing black and Latino voters,” said Maurice BP-Weeks, co-executive director of Action Center on Race & the Economy.

Stephen Moore, the conservative economist whom President Trump plans to nominate for a seat on the Federal Reserve, owes $75,000 in unpaid federal taxes, interest and penalties, according to court documents filed last year.

Income inequality and income segregation often are discussed in terms of the neighborhoods people live in. Here, the focus is on identifying where people of different incomes do or don’t encounter one another as they move about the city to work, eat, do errands, or soak up arts and culture.

Facebook has already banned white supremacy from its networks and now it is also including white nationalism and separatists to the list.