New Orleans The recently announced settlement between the Department of Justice and Wells Fargo Bank saw them pony up $174 Million to provide restitution to 34,000 customers because of racial discrimination in lending rates and steering them into toxic subprime rates caught my eye and brought me to full attention. This might be a case of …
Category: ACORN
Voter Suppression as a Poll Tax
New Orleans Finally as the campaigns begin to grip the likely closeness of the election, there is some pushback against the massive state-by-state efforts to suppress or drive down the likely voters, especially among lower and minority citizens. Attorney General Eric Holder in triggering federal litigation in several states has correctly referred to such measures, …
Looking at Occupy and the Arab Spring
Springfield Looking at the connections and contrasts between the revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the Occupy Movement was an irresistible topic for the 20th conference of AADERT (African and African-American Development, Education, Research, and Training) at Springfield College. In fact anything that seeks to look deeply at social movements and …