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The White House just took steps to combat housing discrimination. States and local governments should follow.
August 8, 2024By Jasmine Rangel, Smartcities Dive The White House is making important strides in fair housing with new measures to protect renters from discriminatory screening practices. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's new guidance addresses...
Black and Latino Renters Face Eviction, Exclusion Amid Police Crackdowns in California
January 27, 2021https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-11-19/california-housing-policies-hurt-black-latino-renters By Liam Dillon, Ben Poston, Julia Barajas Three years after his release from prison following a cocaine dealing conviction, Terrance...
Join Us on the Webinar (7/30) – Ending the Triple Pandemic: Advancing Racial Equity by Promoting Health, Economic Opportunity and Criminal Justice Reform
July 14, 2020Please join National Collaborative for Health Equity, Trust for America’s Health, American Public Health Association, and the NAACP, on July 30, 2020 at 2:00 pm ET for a congressional briefing titled, Ending the Triple Pandemic: Advancing Racial...
‘Urgent call to action’: Huda Ahmed to lead collaboration on reforming Minnesota’s criminal justice, dismantling inequities
June 17, 2020By Becky Z. Dernbach (Read...
Dr. Gail Christopher Addresses Helsinki Commission (Oral Testimony)
July 22, 2019Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) BRIEFING ON TRUTH, RECONCILIATION, & HEALING - Toward a Unified Future (PDF Version) Thursday, July 18, 2019 Testimony by Gail C. Christopher Chairman Hastings,...
Dr. Gail Christopher Addresses Helsinki Commission
July 22, 2019Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) BRIEFING ON TRUTH, RECONCILIATION, & HEALING - Toward a Unified Future (PDF Version) Thursday, July 18, 2019 Written Testimony by Gail C. Christopher Chairman Hastings,...
Recognizing Majority-Black Cities, When Their Existence is Being Questioned
October 13, 2017By Andre M. Perry, Brookings Black Lives Matter (BLM) is “a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-black racism that permeates our society,” according to its founders. Created after the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman...
Livestream: A Conversation with Cedric Richmond
February 28, 2017Live stream today: Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 10:30 am ET - 12:00 pm ET Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for a conversation with Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, or CBC, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) as he...
America, Racial Bias Does Exist
January 18, 2017By Jeff Nesbit We clearly have a problem in America. When almost 90 percent of white people in America who take the Implicit Association Test show an inherent racial bias for white people versus black people, that means something. When young,...
Machine Bias
July 7, 2016by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. On a Spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to...