Center for Responsible Lending – As the August 15th deadline nears for bank and credit union customers to opt in to high-cost overdraft programs, a new CRL analysis finds these firms market most aggressively and often misleadingly to their most vulnerable customers. Banks target these customers because they likely live on the edge financially and […]
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Crack bill becomes law
Yesterday morning, President Obama signed the crack bill into law! That same morning, the Washington Post ran an editorial praising the reform and singling FAMM out for our “relentless efforts”! And over the weekend, our Massachusetts team scored a middle-of-the-night victory in the waning hours of the legislative session, securing parole eligibility for many prisoners […]
Operation Well Worth It Brings Hope of Clean Water and Medical Care to 3,000 People in Angiro, Kenya
Federal EEOC Warned Census Bureau of Likely Discrimination, Outten & Golden Claims in a Lawsuit
New York — New evidence in a federal lawsuit shows the U.S. Census Bureau ignored a pointed, detailed warning by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that its screening process for hiring more than one million temporary census workers could result in massive racial and ethnic discrimination. A coalition of civil rights organizations today […]
LDF Commemorates the 45th Anniversary of Voting Rights Act Signing
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 — Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) commemorates the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, a bill that remains a cornerstone feature of American democracy. The Act is widely considered one of the most successful and effective civil rights statutes ever passed by […]
City Councilman Kwanza Hall, AIM for Youth, & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Host Back-2-School Day
Atlanta – Residents of Atlanta City Council District 2 will have yet another chance to get free back to school supplies before the first day of class for city students. Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall, AIM for Youth, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding will host a “District 2 Back-2-School Community Kids Day” […]
Economic Setbacks, Empowerment Challenges, and a Still-Evolving Multicultural Nation Result in Deferred Dreams Among African-American and Hispanic Consumers, New Yankelovich Multicultural Study Finds
African Americans and Hispanics are deferring economic dreams; deferring dreams of greater self-reliance; and deferring dreams of an imminent equal society exclusive of prejudice. Chapel Hill, N.C., — Striving for the American Dream has always been a goal for many Americans, but today three-quarters of African-Americans (75%) and Hispanics (76%), along with over two-thirds of […]
Statement on the President’s Speech to the Urban League by Michael L. Lomax, PhD, President and CEO, UNCF
Washington, DC — President Obama’s speech on education to the Urban League was both a stirring call to action and a reminder that nothing less than our national economic vitality and competitiveness are at stake. The president is focusing on the right things and headed in the right direction. His education agenda embodies the best […]