On Our Radar

Nearly a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the search for the dead continues.

The economic legacy of the pandemic threatens to be an extraordinary new concentration of wealth.

Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations.

These data are from the Current Employment Statistics survey and are seasonally adjusted. Earnings for the most recent 2 months are preliminary.

Residents of Houston’s Third Ward, where George Floyd grew up, are fighting to maintain the neighborhood’s African American identity as gentrification intensifies.

Black customers risk being racially profiled on everyday visits to bank branches. Under federal laws, there is little recourse as long as the banks ultimately complete their transactions.

“This has to be more than just lip service,” she said of banks’ recent statements. “There has to be some soul-searching.”

Sawant says that small landlords are increasingly being bought out as the price of land skyrockets, while big corporations and developers move in.

An obscure add-on charge for mortgages has put homeownership out of reach, disproportionately for black Americans.

Some GOP lawmakers who benefited from the Paycheck Protection Program also opposed legislation requiring lending transparency.

Racial disparities in this pandemic are nothing new, but a massive collection of test results is the surest evidence yet of a horrifying trend.

NIH is launching three main parts to its COVID-19 endeavor.

Asked what cities can do about bank lending given that it’s mostly regulated by the federal government, Harper said it’s clear the Community Reinvestment Act, the federal law passed in 1977 to ensure banks lend in all communities, has not been enough to achieve equity in lending in black communities.

Mensah also spoke at a rally this month in Los Angeles sponsored by White Coats for Black Lives. But because there are still such persistently low numbers of black people working in medicine, Mensah found himself addressing a sea of white faces.

“I was the only black male there, unfortunately,” he says.

“Black trans lives matter,” Brown told the crowd. “My sister’s life mattered. All of the loved ones we have lost, all of these beautiful girls that we have lost. There (sic) lives matter. We have to protect them.”