Brookings: The early results of states’ Opportunity Zones are promising, but there’s still room for improvement
Adam Looney looks at early results of which neighborhoods states are designating Opportunity Zones.
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Medium: Dear white neighbor,
This Saturday there’s a Nazi Rally coming to Newnan, right down the street from where we live.
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The New York Times: Blacks still face a red line on housing
The Great Recession reduced the African-American homeownership rate to levels not seen since housing discrimination was legal in the 1960s.
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University of Virginia Center for Politics: Explaining support for Trump in the white working class: race vs. economics
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.
New York Times: Holocaust is fading from memory, survey finds
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.
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American Banker: BankThink Grading Treasury’s CRA reform memo: ‘Incomplete’
Let’s discuss the specifics of what modernization could look like, since the Treasury report chose not to.
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American Banker: CRA’s black box could prove difficult to open
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
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The New York Times: Why America’s black mothers and babies are in a life-or-death crisis
The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.
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SSIR: Leveraging the power of bots for civil society
Autonomous technologies can support social services programs, but delivery must always be centered around people.
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New Yorker: The unfulfilled promise of the Fair Housing Act
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.
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The Atlantic: A house you can buy, but never own
African Americans in the same neighborhoods decimated by subprime lending are now being targeted with new predatory loan offerings.
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The Washington Post: It’s official: Steven Mnuchin is the greatest sycophant in Cabinet history
The treasury secretary has discovered the key to Cabinet survival: flattering the boss.
Reveal: Does the Trump administration’s plan to modernize anti-blight laws stack up?
Here’s what the Treasury Department’s changes would do, and wouldn’t, toward solving four major problems we have outlined in our investigation.
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The Atlantic: King ‘inspired me to get in trouble’
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.
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CNN: ‘A wound that remains raw’
For the first time in 50 years Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson return together to the motel balcony where their mentor, Martin Luther King Jr., was fatally shot in 1968.
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