Supreme Court Protects the Fair Housing Act
Though many were focused on Thursday's decision on Obamacare, the Supreme Court also issued an unexpected win to civil rights advocates.The Fair Housing Act, which was signed into law in 1968, a week...
View ArticleSupreme Court Takes Up the Scope of the Fair Housing Act
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on a case that questions the scope of the Fair Housing Act (FHA).The case was brought forward...
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Supreme Court weighs cities’ plea to sue banks for bias
Photo of U.S. Supreme Court by Jonathan Ernst/ReutersWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seems inclined to allow Miami to sue banks for predatory lending practices among minority customers that led to...
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News Wrap: May Day demonstrators protest Trump policies
Watch VideoWILLIAM BRANGHAM: In the day’s other news: Thousands of demonstrators across the country took to the streets in massive May Day events, mostly protesting President Trump’s policies. May 1 is...
View Article50 Years After The Fair Housing Act, the Ongoing Struggle For Equal Housing
Fifty years ago this week, the Fair Housing Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. Passed in the same month Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, the bill was...
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1968: Fifty Years Later
Assassinations. The fight for civil rights. Protests against the Vietnam War. Labor strikes. 1968 was undoubtedly a momentous year in a dramatic era.Like the rest of the nation, the New York City...
View ArticleIt Could Get Harder to Prove Housing Discrimination
Across the country, lenders and landlords often use algorithms to determine which applicants to rent or lend to. But racial bias has frequently been detected within algorithms, which means that people...
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