RACE · WEALTH · COMMUNITY
ADVANCING INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
NCRC’s Race, Wealth & Community division seeks to grow and transform wealth building opportunities to end historical economic inequality. We’re aiming for a society where wealth and its growth advance the nation as a whole, including historically disenfranchised racial and ethnic groups. We investigate fair housing and fair lending practices, provide education, training, counseling and coaching to entrepreneurs, legal and community advocacy and direct services to promote economic security and a more holistic understanding of wealth creation focused on the public good.
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Our team
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
Chief of Race, Wealth and Community
202.464.2729
dasantemuhammad@ncrc.org
Anneliese Lederer
Director of Fair Lending and Consumer Protection
202.464.2731
alederer@ncrc.org
Bethlehem “Betty” Aynalem
Interim Director, Women’s Business Center
202.524.4874
baynalem@dcwbc.org
Monica Grover
Special Assistant to the Chief of Race, Wealth and Community
202.464.2711
mgrover@ncrc.org
Jake Lilien
Civil Rights Testing Manager
202.383.7711
jlilien@ncrc.org
Lyals Battle
Program Manager, Business Development
202.464.2301
lbattle@ncrc.org
Rose Ramirez
Civil Rights Investigator
202.464.2298
rramirez@ncrc.org
Tracy McCracken
Director, Fair Housing
202.383.7709
tmcCracken@ncrc.org
Latest
Racial Wealth Snapshot: American Indians/ Native Americans
Native Americans and the Racial Wealth Divide The United States has too often hindered Native American advancement, not advanced it. Through years of intentional governmental policies that removed lands and resources, American Indians have been separated from the wealth and assets that was rightfully theirs. Thus Native Americans, which refers to people from any of the
Latinos, the Racial Wealth Divide and Rebuilding the American Middle Class
As National Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) developed a Latino Racial Wealth Snapshot to reflect on the diversity, culture and socioeconomic challenges facing the nation’s largest ethnic group of color. With a total of 58.8 million (foreign-born: 36%; native-born: 62%), the Latino community ranks at 18.1% of the U.S.
Racial Wealth Snapshot: Latino Americans
Defining Hispanic and Latino In census data, Hispanic is the term most often used to describe the ethnicity of the people in the United States from Spanish speaking countries. However, it is most often thought of as a person from or has ancestry in Latin America, excluding people from Spain. The term Latino, shorthand for
Small business lending and the racial wealth divide
There is growing recognition that wealth is a central indicator of the economic well-being and stability of households and that such low levels of wealth among blacks and Hispanics are a significant indicator of continuing deep racial economic inequality.
NBC: As McConnell’s family shows, the legacy of slavery persists in most American lives
NBC, July 9, 2019: As McConnell’s family shows, the legacy of slavery persists in most American lives When Mitch McConnell confirmed Tuesday that his ancestors had owned slaves, he didn’t say whether he was surprised to learn about it from an NBC News report the day before. But historians, economists and other scholars say that few Americans should
Nonprofit Quarterly: A plan to reverse “economic apartheid” in the US
The racial wealth divide that exists in the U.S. isn’t accidental.
Nonprofit Quarterly: What might reparations look like? Nonprofit activists outline one path
As NPQ’s Cyndi Suarez wrote last month, reparations is now on the agenda of the Democratic Party presidential primary. Writing in Truthout, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Chuck Collins offer their strategy. Asante-Muhammad is Chief of Equity and Inclusion at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC).
Unfair housing under the Trump administration
On April 11, 1968, following Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act (FHA) which was designed to secure the right to housing no matter their race, color, national origin, disability, familial status, sex or religion. The FHA protects people from discrimination when they are renting or buying a home, getting a
