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Like Me Too and Black Lives Matter, the Flatten the Curve movement has fomented a profound reckoning with privilege and inequality.

After more than two decades of failure, Maryland lawmakers passed legislation Tuesday that makes it illegal for landlords to discriminate against tenants based on how they pay their rent, including with government housing vouchers.

“Redlining is among the unfinished business of the Civil and Human Rights Movements,” Texas Congressman Al Green said.

In short, Gravity Payments put the American Dream back within financial reach for its employees.

The economic impact of the coronavirus requires a stronger federal response. Congress needs to be careful about the timing.

“So, what I’m trying to do — I want to work with the city of Leeds, I want them to give me the spaces, number one. I want them to give me the houses, and I’m going to use my own money, selling my memorabilia.”

The authors see signs of progress, albeit less than might have been expected.

At the ever-growing bottom of the American economy, a low-wage worker becomes a minimum-wage activist

More than 450 farmers killed themselves across nine Midwestern states from 2014 to 2018. Meanwhile, calls to Farm Aid’s crisis hotline soar.

Wells Fargo Chair Betsy Duke resigned abruptly Sunday, just days after Representative Maxine Waters called for her ouster.

”[Policymakers should] challenge its fundamental assumptions and ask why it is homeownership––an institution irrevocably imbued with racism––that is the suggested path to financial security in the first place,” the University of Georgia scholars group wrote in a statement.

The federal comptroller of the currency took a look around Crosstown Concourse and Smoky City/Klondike to its north Friday, March 6, and then mounted a Beale Street defense of changes to the 43-year-old Community Reinvestment Act.

He’s proposing to have neighborhood schools serve as community hubs to help improve economic opportunity through a focus on family services, education, economics and health.

When entering the exhibition, visitors immediately face a sculpture called “Dying Indian,” from around 1904 and by Charles Cary Rumsey, a piece that Gibson says is one of many Western bronzes made around that time, by non-Native people, to portray the decline and end of Native American civilizations.