discrimination
Feds: Black comedian denied right to buy house
Chicago Sun-Times – Federal officials Tuesday charged a Bridgeport couple and their real estate agent with housing discrimination, alleging that they refused to sell a home to black buyers. The complaint reads like something that reared its head out of Chicago history, circa 1970. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development filed the complaint [...]
Despite Sherrod spotlight, black farmers denied
Black farmers, due $1.2 billion for a legacy of discrimination by the Agriculture Department, suffered a new and disheartening setback this week, despite the national spotlight provided by the quickly disavowed firing of a black department worker. The Senate refused again to pay the bill. Opponents say it’s a question of where the money would [...]
Small Business Administration discrimination case could finally be headed for trial
V. Dion Haynes, Washington Post – In 2001, C. Earl Peek established a venture capital fund called Diamond Ventures to provide equity lending to an underserved market: minority businesspeople operating in inner cities with high concentrations of low-income residents. He envisioned raising hundreds of millions of dollars in government and private funding to help minorities [...]
