Category: redlining
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Surviving The Coronapocalypse
How apartheid and redlining are fueling the global COVID-19 pandemic and how people can fight back. The post Surviving The Coronapocalypse appeared first on The…
COVID-19 Ravages Communities Marginalized By White Supremacy
America’s legacy of white supremacy has marginalized Black communities with redlining, segregation, poverty, and lack of access. Combating the history of abuse and mistrust is…
How Land Value Tax Could Narrow the Racial Wealth and Opportunity Gap
“Protecting property values” was a canard used to justify racist housing policy in 1910, and continues to be an excuse used today. But what if…
Racial Inequality Is Rooted in Denial of Home and Land Ownership
The racial wealth gap in the US is directly linked to the ways in which Blacks were prevented from home and property ownership, while the…
The Lines Between Us: The Modern History of Baltimore Apartheid (1/2)
As Trump unloads a racist attack on Baltimore, we speak with author Lawrence Lanahan, who charts the history of segregation from redlining to the civil…
Kamala Harris Goes After the Black Vote With a Homeownership Plan
Will Kamala Harris’ home ownership proposal address the persistent issue of the racial homeownership and wealth gap, or will her plan create more problems for…
Where Do the Politics of Reparations Go From Here?
This week, the first congressional hearing on reparations in nearly 12 years was held on Capitol Hill. As the discussion on reparations matures, what needs…
Congressional Hearing on Slavery Reparations Draws Huge Crowd
Large and passionate crowds gathered to witness historians, economists, academics, and politicians testify for the first time in nearly a dozen years on H.R. 40,…
Billions Stolen From Black Families by Predatory Lending
White Collar criminologist Bill Black analyzes the new study, “The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago,” opening the way for a fruitful conversation about reparations…
Recent Comments