The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Wednesday, May 13th. Everyone knows America is a religious country, founded on religious values. But we don’t know much about American’s religious preferences, including the religious preferences of African-Americans. Neither the government nor the Census asks questions of about people’s religions. But the Pew Research Center does as part […]
If you thought housing discrimination was dead — you thought wrong. According to HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, housing discrimination is still…
Indianapolis is becoming a city where affordable, quality housing is scarce. Increasingly more low income and working poor families are forced to live in substandard and lower quality apartments and houses and pay ever increasing, difficult to pay rents. The Federal Section 8 program, run by the Indianapolis Housing Agency and overseen by the Federal […]
The Obama Administration’s top civil rights enforcement officer visited Indianapolis, along with a top official of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to talk with Hoosier leaders about better enforcement of civil rights issues. During a Special Edition of Afternoons with Amos, Jocelyn Samuels, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights talked with Amos […]
A shocking report just released showed racial discrimination in renting of apartments in Indianapolis is greater than many thought in the 21st Century. A report by the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana found that 82% of qualified African-Americans encountered illegal racial discrimination when trying to rent apartments in predominantly white neighborhoods in Indianapolis/Marion County. […]
In a new investigative report published by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), six major banks have been accused of actively engaging in discriminatory practices…
LANCASTER, CALIF.–The town of Lancaster, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, is under investigation for allegedly discriminating against Black and Latino renters who use Section 8 vouchers to pay their rent. According to reports, residents claim they’re being unjustly surveilled by neighbors and harassed with unannounced visits by sheriff’s deputies and county housing agents. At the […]
Detroit Lakes, Minn– A 25 year old woman who was turned away as a tenant because she was African-American will be receiving $25,500 as part of a settlement filed Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis. When Ranesha Halliburton arrived to see the property with her boyfriend and his father, landlord Pearl Beck said it was […]
Different experiences. Different histories. Different roads to living in the United States in 2010. Today, Black, White, and Latino families of the same income have very different levels of wealth. The three groups have different levels of educational attainment, life savings, hourly wages, access to medical care, and different life expectancies.
