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American Banker, August 28, 2018: OCC goes it alone on first step toward CRA overhaul The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued more than 30 questions Tuesday asking the public how it can revamp a 40-year-old law that grades banks on their lending to low- and moderate-income communities. The questions are included as […]

It is infuriating that officials have put the welfare of most Americans at risk to enrich the wealthiest few.

When my wife and I adopted our daughter from Ethiopia in 2010, we did so full of hope. In the years since, we’ve faced ugliness that has robbed us of our optimism—and left us fearful for the future of our country.

The problem of Confederate monuments points to a larger, persistent conviction among some white Americans that racial equality brings white oppression in its wake.

Society’s winners can seem so generous, until you consider what they’re really selling.

Anything less than a complete revolution that tore down the bigoted and patently unfair systems of mass incarceration would be a severe disappointment.

Silent Sam is a Confederate soldier statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina, and Monday night, after years of controversy, a group of students pulled it down.

Federal prosecutors are looking into how PNC Financial Services Group Inc. purchased tax credits meant to fund housing for low-income people, the bank said.

“There are 76 monuments to the civil rights movement. Let this be the 77th.”

States like Ohio are placing their surpluses in rainy-day funds, but cities that have suffered because of cuts since the recession say it is time to loosen up.

Economic and racial inequality is an issue that must be addressed now. Don Graves reflects on his years of work in the banking and community investment sectors to share his plans to remedy this inequality.