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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American Banker: Flexible boundaries and exams: how treasury would modernize CRA
The Treasury’s recommendations come as federal bank regulators have indicated they will soon release a proposal to reform Community Reinvestment Act policy.
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Vox: Democratic politicians represent middle-class voters. GOP politicians don’t.
Political scientists are finding an alarming pattern.
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New York Times: Integration now, integration forever
Racism is America’s great sin, and if there isn’t continual progress to combat it, the nation becomes ugly to itself.
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Citylab: Chicago’s awful divide
Americans are flocking to big cities to find good jobs—opportunities that remain disproportionately out of reach for the poorest residents already living there.
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Chronicle of Philanthropy: Cryptocurrency giant’s $29 million gift funds every request on Donorschoose.org
The gift is believed to be the largest ever made in cryptocurrency to a single charity and reported publicly.Â
Courthouse News Service: Fair-housing groups nail Facebook on virtual redlining
Taking aim at the targeted-advertising algorithms that put Facebook on top of modern-day marketing, several fair-housing advocates brought a federal complaint Tuesday over virtual redlining.
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The Washington Post: 1968
A nation divided, a city devastated by riots. Explore the year that transformed politics, culture and people.
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The Atlantic: ‘We cannot move forward if these kids are left behind’
These local grassroots groups are trying to close the income, wealth, and education gaps between families of color and their white counterparts.
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Reveal: You had questions about modern-day redlining. We have answers
We received thousands of questions about redlining’s history and legality – and what everyday citizens can do about it.
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Politico: How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico
A POLITICO investigation shows a persistent double standard in the president’s handling of relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria.
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Reuters: Federal reserve may review rules on lending to the poor
The Federal Reserve may change decades-old rules that require banks to lend to low-income borrowers as part of a broader effort to revise a range of banking regulations, the U.S. central bank’s head of regulation and supervision said on Monday.
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The Cut: What a massive new study on income inequality misses about black women
Black women, too, must have equal pay — not to white women, but to white men.
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Vogue: At the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., the youth vote calls for action
Teenage survivors of gun violence sang, and spoke, and read their poetry at the rally, which attracted a crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
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Bloomberg: What we didn’t learn from the Bear Stearns collapse
Sifting though the conventional wisdom 10 years later.
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