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Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth
by Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Renee Montagne, NPR On a melancholy Saturday this past February, Shalon Irving’s “village” — the friends and family she had assembled to support her as a single mother — gathered at a funeral home in a...
The Fight for Affordable Housing Unites People in Manufactured Homes Across Racial and Geographic Barriers
By Sarah Jaffe, Truthout | Interview Today we bring you a conversation with Kevin Borden, the executive director of Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction), a nationwide constituency-based group. MHAction works to empower manufactured...
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Does Race Matter in America’s Most Diverse ZIP Codes?
By John Eligon VALLEJO, Calif. — Beyond the burgers and fries coming from the kitchen and the oldies blaring from the radio, the scene playing out daily at the Original Red Onion might appear unfamiliar to much of the country. The...
Who Benefits from Gentrification?
By Peter Dreier When affluent people compete with poor people for a scarce supply of housing, guess what happens? Home prices and rents go up, and the poor are pushed out. In a nutshell, that's the formula that fuels gentrification. Most news...
Gentrification Comes to Atlanta’s Last Working Class Black Neighborhood
By Cliff Albright Walk into the home of Robert and Bertha Darden, and you are immediately surrounded by memories. Like many African American couples who have reached a certain age, the front room of their house is full of photos – of the...
Rev. William Barber Honored by MCF, ABFE and HIP
SEATTLE – Marguerite Casey Foundation, a national philanthropy that believes no family should live in poverty, is pleased to announce that The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II – who launched the “Moral Monday” peaceful protests in North...
The quiet crisis among African Americans: Pregnancy and childbirth are killing women at inexplicable rates
By Ann M. Simmons Three weeks after Cassaundra Lynn Perkins gave birth to premature twins, she returned to the hospital, feeling unwell. She phoned her mother from her hospital bed at 3:30 in the morning. “I’m just not feeling...
Blacks and Latinos Will Be Broke in a Few Decades
By Josh Hoxie September 19, 2017 Many people see progress on racial equity in the U.S. as a steady march forward, in which people of color become more equal with their white counterparts as the years go by. Those are people...
There’s a ‘Poisonous Dynamic Among White People’ Over Who’s to Blame for Racism
By Jonathan Capehart (Opinion) This is a really poisonous dynamic in this country between white people.” To further my education in the political motivations of the white working-class and their support of President Trump, I read “White...