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Listen • 5:04 Housing discrimination against communities of color also involves lenders, local zoning laws and other issues, says Andre Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The Biden administration says the federal government needs to do a better job of acknowledging the ways that communities of color are blocked from fair and equal access to housing. "Today the average Black family has just one-tenth the wealth of the average white family, while the gap be...

The Brief: Climate adaptation, impact reporting, insuring smallholder farmers, imperfect food, student-centric finance, decarbonization opportunities The team at Accelerating climate emergency spurs innovative financing for adaptation. Investments aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions have long overshadowed financing for efforts to help communities adapt to climate change. That is changing, as droughts, floods, storms and wildfires disrupt livelihoods, exacerbate food and water insecu...

Protesters Caught In NYPDs Violent Mott Haven Crackdown Push For Community Reparations Fund arrow NYPD officers arrest a protester in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx on June 4th, 2020. C.S. Muncy / Gothamist On June 4th, LoriKim Alexander, a 44-year-old Bronx resident, was marching against police brutality in the borough’s Mott Haven neighborhood. Without warning, hundreds of heavily armored NYPD officers trapped the group on a narrow street, then rushed at them ...

Iowa City Press-Citizen The Englert Theatre announced Thursday that executive director Andre Perry has been named to the board of the National Independent Venue Association. "NIVA was instrumental in the lobby for funding from Congress as part of the latest relief bill and worked in tandem with Americans for the Arts, National Association of (Movie) Theatre Owners and other key national organizations," a Facebook post announcing Perrys new position reads. The organization was formed last y...

Embed Ernestine Mann, here in a family photo, moved into the Arbor Terrace at Cascade assisted living facility in Atlanta in 2019. Mann was one of the residents who died of COVID-19 this year when there was an outbreak at the facility. Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR toggle caption Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR Ernestine Mann, here in a family photo, moved into the Arbor Terrace at Cascade assisted living facility in Atlanta in 2019. Mann was one of the res...

Listen • 11:57 A family photo shows Ernestine Mann. She moved into the Arbor Terrace at Cascade assisted living facility in 2019. Mann was one of the residents who died of COVID-19 earlier this year when there was an outbreak at the facility. On the evening of Feb. 20 at an assisted living facility just on the edge of Southwest Atlanta, Ernestine Mann stood in front of her peers to read aloud a proclamation commemorating Black History Month. She was dressed for the occasio...

Joe BidenSupreme Court will hear Boston bombers death case — if the Biden administration lets it The Hills Morning Report - Biden tasks Harris on border; news conference todayDemocrats face questions over agendaMORE is from Scranton. He is a man of the middle class. His political persona is, and always has been, that of a guy who remembers where he came from and who he is for. Even Kayleigh McEnany, before she became press secretary for Donald Trump, described him as a “man of the people”...

The Year Live Music Stopped Pitchfork 12/18/2020 © Graphic by Drew Litowitz On a cold, cloudy day near the end of 2020, I start walking toward my favorite venue. It’s an empty storefront now, with a loving tribute affixed to the door: a white poster with a cartoon drawing of a tombstone. “Vaudeville Mews: 2002-2020,” the epitaph reads. “Born to lose/Lived to win.” Flowers and two empty cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon hang from the bottom. I literally wouldn’t be here without this plac...

SAT Math Scores Mirror and Maintain Racial Inequity Ember Smith and Richard V. Reeves, Brookings Institution, December 1, 2020 In 1926, the SAT was created to give talented students, regardless of income, the chance to compete for college admission and scholarships. Nearly 100 years later, it often excludes the lower-income students it was created to help. Although the original exam was primarily aimed at economic diversity, part of its stated modern mission is to help inc...

December 8, 2020 COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has disproportionately struck Black and Brown communities. We are centuries into the equally pernicious plague of police violence toward unarmed Black Americans. Both realities are grounded in structural white supremacy. Both have made plain the pervasive inequity baked into the American Experiment. As our moderator, Andre Perry, says in his book, “Know Your Price,” “The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very r...