The US government is retreating from its mission of ensuring banks and other big financial companies don’t discriminate against neighborhoods with high populations of racial minorities when making ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zooey Liao/CNET When Wendyliz Martinez traveled from Pennsylvania to the Bronx to stay with her mom during the pandemic, she was ...

Just when you thought the flurry of executive orders pertaining to “deregulation” might have slowed down, the President signed, on April 23, 2025, Executive Order 14281, “Restoring Equality of ...

Richard Andreano Jr., John Culhane Jr. A federal judge has rejected the Trump Administration’s request to release from court supervision a bank that had been accused of discriminatory lending. U.S.

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was passed in 1977 to combat redlining and increase bank services in low-income communities. Despite progress, the legacy of redlining continues to affect ...

The Nov. 12 front page story “Study details long history of housing discrimination,” shares an important perspective on how racially restrictive covenants have shaped our region. Equally important, ...