Posts Tagged ‘Housing’

NAACP, Wells Fargo and a Banker’s Heart

NAACP, Wells Fargo and a Banker’s Heart
Outside of Bank of America’s former headquarters in San Francisco, there is a sculpture that locals have dubbed a “banker’s heart.” The NAACP has come under fire for its “partnership” with cold-hearted Wells Fargo, which is being sued by states and municipalities for discriminatory and predatory...
May 4th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Housing, Racial Equity | Read More

SEC probes Goldman Sachs for investor fraud – but ignores widespread, underlying racially discriminatory practices

SEC probes Goldman Sachs for investor fraud – but ignores widespread, underlying racially discriminatory practices
Article also written by Christy Rogers The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) securities fraud case against Goldman Sachs seems to indicate that Wall Streeters care more about their own paychecks than that of their investors — a practice that Michael Lewis brought home not only recently...
April 21st, 2010 | Featured, Housing, Racial Equity | Read More

Africville apology is a start, not an end

Africville apology is a start, not an end
Last week’s apology by city of Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly, for the evictions and razing of the African-Canadian community of Africville in Nova Scotia during the 1960s, marks a small but significant moment in the history of slavery and racism in Canada. The official apology issued February 24, 2010,...
March 1st, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Will the new jobs bill help hardest hit areas?

Will the new jobs bill help hardest hit areas?
In response to our nation’s ongoing economic challenges, a new federal jobs bill is expected from Congress soon. The Kirwan Institute has been tracking the impact of federal efforts to alleviate the economic crisis for the past year.  Given our experiences tracking the impact of American Recovery...
February 26th, 2010 | Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Making Wall Street face the music: Enforcing the mandate to affirmatively further fair housing

Making Wall Street face the music: Enforcing the mandate to affirmatively further fair housing
“It is an old maxim and a very sound one that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. . . I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler.” Abraham Lincoln President Abraham Lincoln made this profound statement in 1837, yet it remains applicable today. ...
February 24th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Working toward cooperative solutions to promote equality for all

Working toward cooperative solutions to promote equality for all
The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President, gave me hope that our Country was at last moving forward from centuries of racist thought and practice. Jimmy Carter By the fall of 2009, the President was rejecting suggestions that political opposition was couched in racist thinking....
February 22nd, 2010 | Featured, Transforming Race Conference | Read More

EDITORIAL: Obama’s speech addressed several categories of people and communities except race and ethnicity

EDITORIAL: Obama’s speech addressed several categories of people and communities except race and ethnicity
What a long, strange year it’s been. A year that began with the loud insistence by some that Barack Obama’s election confirmed the United States as an essentially colorblind, post-racial nation went on to present a series of spectacular counterpoints to that claim – flaps over Attorney General...
January 28th, 2010 | Featured, State of the Union | Read More

Jobs focus welcome… but where do the jobs go?

Jobs focus welcome… but where do the jobs go?
The following is a statement from PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell on President Obama’s first State of the Union address: “A recovery that merely recreates our inequitable pre-recession economy is no recovery at all. Throughout his first year and his first State of the Union address, President...
January 28th, 2010 | Featured, State of the Union | Read More
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