Creators of the Racial Equity Index hope the data tool has launched at the right moment to spur policy to fix racial economic disparities.

Two key pieces of federal community-development legislation are the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Rulemaking by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation also acts as an important lever for influencing CRA implementation.

Breonna Taylor’s family claims her death was linked to Louisville’s redevelopment plan. Experts say it’s plausible

The bank processed more than 12,000 loans over $150,000. It reported giving only one to a Black-owned company

A billion dollars. That’s how much the leader of a respected Chicago nonprofit says JPMorgan Chase Bank needs to invest in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods to make up for gaping racial disparities in lending documented recently by WBEZ and City Bureau.

The COVID-19 crisis brought more users to Square, Venmo and PayPal thanks to direct deposits of stimulus payments

Administration officials briefed select congressional staff on Wednesday on the new proposal.

In the rarefied world of tech dealmaking, the legal protections born out of the civil rights movement effectively don’t apply

A new study finds that the restaurant industry’s long-standing practice of paying tipped workers a subminimum wage has led to significant racial and gender-based pay disparities, disparities that are now being exacerbated by the pandemic.

Our global pandemic forced us to grapple with truths we always knew but too often ignored. One of those truths is the direct relationship between one’s housing and one’s health. They are inextricably linked.

The letter comes after a story by ProPublica and The Capitol Forum outlined how the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency shelved investigations into discrimination at Bank of America and other lenders.

Sadly, the louder the call for addressing structural racism, the more this administration seems to double down on its opposition to that agenda.

“Unfortunately, I don’t think that supplier diversity has been a metric [most retailers] have considered,” said James. “That’s why we have to advocate for Black-owned brands now.”

Homeless shelters would have the right to turn away transgender people from single-sex facilities that correspond to their gender identity.

The federal government’s PPP and CFAP relief programs leave out beginning farmers even as the coronavirus decimates their primary sales outlets