Greenville Several candidates have indicated in very general terms that they are sympathetic to reparations, including Senators Warren, Sanders, and Booker, and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro. That doesn’t mean it’s coming, but perhaps there will start being some meat on these bones. Several scholars have tried to put some math to the question, and …
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The Inside Story of Predatory Land Contracts
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Patty-Griffin-01-Where-I-Come-From-200014675.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A paper by Eric Seymour and Josh Akers in the Cities journal ranked the density of various forms of land contracts that have surged to the forefront in low income areas since the 2008 financial crisis. This brilliant paper aligns with the work of …
Bringing Our People to the Graduation Line – Go Pounce!
New Orleans What is “pounce?” I actually know, because I’ve spent time over a bunch of years in the downtown campus of Georgia State University. This blue panther head seems to be everywhere around the sprawling and expanding downtown campus. Walking from the parking lots up and down the hills in Atlanta near the capitol …