Suit Alleges Trusted Blacks Drew Minorities to High-Rate Loans

As the housing market began booming in the mid-2000s, Wells Fargo & Co. teamed up with prominent African American commentator and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley and financial author Kelvin Boston, the host of “Moneywise,” a multicultural financial More…

Blaming the Wrong Borrowers

Media Matters weighs in on the topic we wrote about Tuesday on TWI — the fact that blaming low-income and minority borrowers for the housing crisis is picking up speed as reason for the cause of the housing crisis.

Conservatives are blaming the Community Reinvestment Act, an anti-redlining More…