New York Times: Integration now, integration forever
Racism is America’s great sin, and if there isn’t continual progress to combat it, the nation becomes ugly to itself.
New York Times: Integration now, integration forever Read More »
Racism is America’s great sin, and if there isn’t continual progress to combat it, the nation becomes ugly to itself.
New York Times: Integration now, integration forever Read More »
Americans are flocking to big cities to find good jobs—opportunities that remain disproportionately out of reach for the poorest residents already living there.
Citylab: Chicago’s awful divide Read More »
The gift is believed to be the largest ever made in cryptocurrency to a single charity and reported publicly.
Researchers at NCRC compared HOLC maps, the most comprehensive documentation of discriminatory lending practices, with modern-day census data to determine how much neighborhood demographics have changed in 80 years.
Washington Post: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today. Read More »
With the publication of Richard Rothstein’s 2017 book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, the issue of racial and economic “redlining” has come to the forefront. The shocking thing about the revelations in Rothstein’s book is the degree to which policies and practices of segregation were accepted and
Reversing the red lines: Disinvestment in America’s cities Read More »
The study shows how policies and practices that influence access to capital and credit can have a lasting impact on housing patterns, the economic health of neighborhoods and who accumulates wealth.
How 1930s discrimination shaped inequality in today’s cities Read More »
Taking aim at the targeted-advertising algorithms that put Facebook on top of modern-day marketing, several fair-housing advocates brought a federal complaint Tuesday over virtual redlining.
Courthouse News Service: Fair-housing groups nail Facebook on virtual redlining Read More »
Check out NCRC’s Jesse Van Tol on NPR discussing CRA reform.
Marketplace: The lamppost theory Read More »
A nation divided, a city devastated by riots. Explore the year that transformed politics, culture and people.
The Washington Post: 1968 Read More »
These local grassroots groups are trying to close the income, wealth, and education gaps between families of color and their white counterparts.
The Atlantic: ‘We cannot move forward if these kids are left behind’ Read More »
We received thousands of questions about redlining’s history and legality – and what everyday citizens can do about it.
Reveal: You had questions about modern-day redlining. We have answers Read More »
A POLITICO investigation shows a persistent double standard in the president’s handling of relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria.
Politico: How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico Read More »
The Federal Reserve may change decades-old rules that require banks to lend to low-income borrowers as part of a broader effort to revise a range of banking regulations, the U.S. central bank’s head of regulation and supervision said on Monday.
Reuters: Federal reserve may review rules on lending to the poor Read More »
In its classically quiet fashion, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a significant study, asking the Treasury Department to improve data on CRA exams.
Data Drives the Movement for Economic Justice, and Bank Deposits Read More »
Black women, too, must have equal pay — not to white women, but to white men.
The Cut: What a massive new study on income inequality misses about black women Read More »