'Redlining' Home Loan Discrimination Re-emerges as a Concern for Regulators

 

'Redlining' Home Loan Discrimination Re-emerges as a Concern for Regulators

The practice in which banks choke off lending to minority communities was outlawed decades ago, but recently banks across the country have been accused of the practice.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/redlining-home-loan-discrimination-re-emerges-as-a-concern-for-regulators/ar-BBmDjYr?ocid=spartandhp

 

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Police Killings of Blacks: Here Is What the Data Say - The New York Times

 

Police Killings of Blacks: Here Is What the Data Say

The race problem revealed by the statistics on both killings and arrests of blacks reflects something larger: the structure of our society, our laws and policies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/upshot/police-killings-of-blacks-what-the-data-says.html?mwrsm=Email&_r=0

 

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Despite Improving Job Market, Blacks Still Face Tougher Prospects : NPR

 

Despite Improving Job Market, Blacks Still Face Tougher Prospects

New social science research explores why the unemployment rate for blacks is persistently worse than the unemployment rate for whites.

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/01/444912628/despite-improving-job-market-blacks-still-face-tougher-prospects

 

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Article: Should Immigration Require Assimilation?

Every year, unique people—each with their own cultural history—become new citizens of the United States. Must they leave their own heritage behind? The ceremony in which Marta Quintanilla Call became a U.S. citizen was held in a cavernous high-school auditorium in Oakton, Virginia. She and 499 ot...

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