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Narrows the wealth gap and how is the resonating with folks you have been reporting on? >> its a big deal. one thing that tulsa illustrates well is the violent dispossession of black americans through violent means and then the redlining and all the ways you can generate wealth. so the idea of providing access to homes, that will certainly generate some degree of shrinkage. that means a lot for the folks here. where youre hearing more calls for reparations hooismt we have a specific injury the d...

Including marsha fudge, acting director of homeland security, who is here with us today. [ applause ] because today were announcing two expanded efforts targeted towards black wealth creation that will also help the entire community. the first is moy administration has launched an aggressive effort to combat racial discrimination in housing including everything from redlining to the cruel fact had a home owned by a black family is too often appraised at a lower value of a similar home opened by ...

Not just from this tulsa massacre in which black businesses were burned to the ground, homes were lost, you know, hundreds of residents fled this city, but also the decades of systemic racism and policies that followed in cities like tulsa. its a broader agenda that addresses the effects of policies like redlining or urban renewal, which had a devastating effect on black communities like the ones in tulsa, and so its an important part of the big picture. hes going to be talking about increasing ...

Are folks relating what is happening now to what happened then, the complicity in it all, the targeting, on a different scale, of course. >> reporter: without question. part of it is, take a big step back, and say, how can america heal and repair? people say reparations. so far, look at evanston, illinois. you try to find a community that has experienced a specific kind of injury, and they show the government was complicit. in oklahoma, white citizens were deputized by police, and they were bomb...

Acknowledgment. after that comes understanding the true economic devastation that started with the enslavement of black people. then was perpetuated through the jim crow era. the economic harms. red lining. gentrification. all of those harms have to be accounted for in a way. theres hardly an appetite for it. they couldnt take the election of a black president. they couldnt take the election of a first black woman vice president. there is a visceral reaction. it is historic, systemic and problem...

There was the violence of jim crow, the violence of red lining, violence of urban renewal and today the violence of gentrification. while this community has weathered so much, theres a sense of pride and resilience. even though they werent able to inherit the wealth that was stolen from them, they did inherit the fighting spirit. commemorating 100 years since the bloody two days of 1921. so many hard memories, trauma and hurt and pain. also a sense of resolve and resilience. they are marching fo...

David Paul Morris/Getty Images Amid a global pandemic, Black millennials led a boom in African American homeownership in 2020. But racial disparities in wealth, education, employment, and homeownership still persist for Black Americans. Homeownership is "going to be a challenge for all millennials, but mostly for Black millennials," an expert told Insider.  During a pandemic that hit Black communities hard, millennial buyers represented the bulk of African America...

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Alerts Houses are surrounded by flood waters after Hurricane Delta passed through the area on Oct. 10, 2020 near Lake Charles, Louisiana. Photo: Chandan Khanna (Getty Images) There’s no question that flooding is becomingworse due to the climate crisis pushing up our sea levels and making heavy downpours more common. But the risk doesn’t affect us all equally. A report released by the real estate brokerage firm Redfin this week shows that formerly redlined areas are more vulnerable to the t...

A Tree Grows in Richmond: Southside Moves from Redlining to Greening A nonprofit-led project seeks to address environmental injustices and improve water quality with targeted tree planting. Kenny Fletcher/CBF Left: Southside, Richmond, Virginia, courtesy of Southside ReLeaf; Right: previous (2018) tree plantings led by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation at Branch’s Baptist Church in Southside. At the peak of a Virginia summer, the difference between the sun and shade is stark. High urban temper...