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 on behalf [...]
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 come from, [...]
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 open [...]
