ABC News, March 24, 2021, Kim Janey being sworn in as 1st Black, 1st woman mayor of Boston Throughout its 200-year history, Boston has been governed by mayors they have all been white men — mainly of Irish American or Italian American decent. That history changes Wednesday when Kim Janey is sworn in as mayor. Kim Janey […]
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USA Today, March 24, 2021, ‘Inequality still exists’: Congresswoman to hold hearing on pay gap on Equal Pay Day In 2021, pay disparities and discrimination still exist between men and women, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., wants people to know that Equal Pay Day is not one of celebration. “This day marks the extra time it takes
NPR, March 22, 2021, With Stronger Democratic Support, D.C. Statehood Fight Returns To Capitol Hill Thirty years after Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton first introduced a bill for Washington, D.C., statehood, she returns to Capitol Hill to do it again — this time with the broadest support for the cause to date. “We’ve gotten off of
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The New York Times, March 20, 2021, Opinion: Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism John, who is Black, and his wife, who is Japanese American, purchased a family home in a suburb of Atlanta in 2004. When he was interviewed for my book, John — who asked to be identified only by his first
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NPR, March 19, 2021, Men’s And Women’s NCAA March Madness Facilities, Separate And Unequal, Spark Uproar On Thursday, Stanford University sports performance coach Ali Kershner posted a photo comparing the weight room set-up for the NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournaments. While the set-up for the men’s teams included a number of power racks with Olympic
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NAFCU has joined with several other trade groups in repeating concerns to the Treasury Department and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) over recent amendments to the government-sponsored enterprises’ (GSEs) Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements (PSPAs).
Andy Hill discovered he was house poor soon after he bought his first home in 2004.
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A District of Columbia federal judge now has arguments from both sides in the dispute over whether a new rule changing how mortgage data is collected is “arbitrary and capricious.”
Set against the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles, the first season of THEM, subtitled Covenant, examines the impact of discriminatory housing practices like restrictive covenants and redlining that actively shut out minority communities from majority-white areas.
ABA Banking Journal, January 19,2021, Your Fair and Responsible Banking Program in 2021 and Beyond Here are ways for compliance professionals to promote equity and financial inclusion while building a robust fair lending program and demonstrating compliance. In July 2020, a study was released by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition regarding Paycheck Protection Program loans that
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Strengthening and expanding the reach of the Community Reinvestment Act and duties to serve throughout the financial sector has to be at the forefront of policy questions about racial equity, the racial wealth gap and expanding financial inclusion for lower income communities.
Although the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and other fair lending laws have increased lending and investment in traditionally underserved communities, stubborn and persistent lending disparities by race and income remain. CRA needs an update and its coverage of the financial industry must be expanded. The overall objective of Section 203 is to increase lending, investments
On Wednesday (April 21, 2021), the U.S. Senate confirmed Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General, the third-highest position inside the Justice Department, where she is expected to play a leading role in investigating police brutality and other civil rights matters.
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Former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday (April 20, 2021) in Minneapolis of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, who co-authored the 1968 Fair Housing Act and was a staunch civil rights supporter, passed away Monday, April 20, 2021, at age 93.
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