The new study unmasks discrimination by U.S. mortgage lenders.
Mortgage lenders across the United States discriminate against African-Americans clients, according to a new study. "It’s all about the long legacy of historical discrimination." In an industry where credit scores are meant to determine eligibility, race was half as much a determining factor of the lender’s response to a loan request. The
[ Pictured in the image above, Carlton Ott, Clark Rice, Steve Hamm, Steve Parrish, David Jay, Michael Magrino, Dewayne Herring, Andy Hughes, Gary Coleman, and Scott Smith ]A newly-leaked report has just proven what many African Americans in Alabama have been saying for years: that police officers in the City of Dothan had been planting […]
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A newly-leaked report has just proven what many African Americans in Alabama have been saying for years: that police officers in the City of Dothan had been planting evidence on African American men they didn’t like, for many years. The shocking new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Alabama Justice Project reveals
At Duke University, a noose was found hanging from a tree. Spray-painted swastikas and nooses were found at dorms on the State University of New York’s Purchase campus.
WASHINGTON — The weariness, the rage, the depressing conviction that black life is stuck in a murderous loop fueled by racism — these emotions resounded in black America after the deadly shootings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people who had gathered to pray in one of the main sanctuaries
Nation-wide protests and vigils highlight growing movement for racial justice.
Mothers whose children have been killed by police gather in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Code Pink) This Mother's Day weekend, moms across the United States are leading protests, vigils, and marches to demand justice for children slain by police and vigilante violence—and to send the message to parents and young people
Urban League findings are ‘a clarion call that a more comprehensive, inclusive and on-the-ground recovery is necessary’ for minorities across country
Helen Shaw talks to people during a rally outside Greater Grace Church, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, for Michael Brown Jr., who was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo. "The state of Black America is in crisis—and we see justice challenged at every turn." So says this year's National Urban League assessment of racial equality in the U.S.,
Ferguson Police: “Get the fuck out of here! You get that light off or you’re getting shot with this!,”
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Ferguson on Sunday night. The situation quickly spiraled out of control when police fired tear gas into the crowd well before the midnight curfew. It’s unclear what prompted the police action. Capturing the dramatic events for the world was Mustafa Hussein, a student who works at a local
