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New Study Discloses 62 Percent Drop in Home Mortgages to Minorities

By Kenneth J. Cooper (America’s Wire) -Since the housing market collapsed, mortgage lending to African-Americans and Hispanics has plunged precipitously—by more than 60 percent, according to a new study of loan information that banks submit to the federal government. Together, African-Americans and Hispanics were able to borrow 62 percent less to buy or refinance homes […]

NMA president to tackle women’s health, environmental illnesses and economic relief

WASHINGTON (NNPA) Leonard Weather Jr., M.D., R.Ph. has been named the 111th president of the D.C.-based National Medical Association, an organization representing more than 30,000 Black physicians around the nation and their patients. …..As a resident of Louisiana, with its many oil refineries, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the recent oil spill, environmental issues […]