Dismantling the False Paths to Equity

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN07292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      I’ll never forget the surprise on a colleague’s face who was working to build a nonprofit community development organization in the Mississippi delta several years ago when we first met.  A lot of her work had been focused on schools and enhancing their curriculum …

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Will Masks Become the New Class and Race Divide?

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        It is no secret that opening versus stay-at-home from state to state and nationally has now, somewhat amazingly, but unsurprisingly as pandemic combines with polarization in the United States, become equally politicized.  Having recently returned from my monthly commute from Louisiana to Mississippi to …

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The Increasing and Persistent Gap between Black and White Homeownership

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure

Detroit     The widening gap between black and white homeownership didn’t happen by accident.  There is abundant evidence and little debate that the gap was the result of historic discrimination enforced by federal policies, state laws, and local ordinances.  Even as ownership rates increased for minority homeowners over a 40-year period thanks to persistent work, legal …

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