Black Enterprise: The Rise of Black Businesses and Homeownership Won’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap

”[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.

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The Daily Memphian: Comptroller of currency defends rewrite of anti-redlining act during Beale forum

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.

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Hartford Business Journal: New federal CRA proposal could mark return of redlining in Hartford

According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, from 2009-2018 CRA qualified lending in Greater Hartford resulted in $8.2 billion in mortgages to LMI homeowners or in LMI neighborhoods, and $1.9 billion in small business loans in LMI neighborhoods.

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AMNY: Reexamining narratives around Native American art at Brooklyn Museum exhibition

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.

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Indian Country Today: Native journalist who made a lasting impact dies at 84

“There are so many ways that Chuck Trimble contributed to Native journalism, and Indian Country, that it’s hard to narrow it down,” said Mark Trahant, editor of Indian Country Today. “Chuck was a brilliant cartoonist. He could have made a career out of doing just that.”

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Build Healthy Places Network: Hospitals Take Note—An important source of funding to address the social determinants of health may be disappearing

The health sector and others have made significant progress in addressing upstream impacts on health like neighborhood vitality, good jobs, good schools, healthy food options and more. It would be tragic to lose that momentum.

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Commercial Appeal: Can a new Community Reinvestment Act stop Memphians from using payday loan shops?

Bryant, along with numerous government and banking officials, visited Memphis to gain insights on ways to revise the Community Reinvestment Act – which encourages financial institutions to do business in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods.

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Study: Proposed Rule Changes to CRA Would Let Banks Lend Less to LMI Borrowers and Communities

Nearly all banks that earned passing marks under current rules would be able to reduce their mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers and communities under new rules proposed for the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), a new study found.

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