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Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Posts Tagged racial discrimination

Tavis Smiley Issues New Statement on Wells Fargo

By | 09.22.09 | 4:28 pm

As TWI has reported, Wells Fargo & Co. teamed up with talk show host and commentator Tavis Smiley for “Wealth Building” seminars in black neighborhoods beginning in 2005. A suit by the Illinois attorney general contends Wells used the seminars to market high-cost and risky subprime loans to More…

‘The Wire’ and the Bad Guys of Subprime Lending

By | 09.14.09 | 9:01 am

Journalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the recession’s racial divide, making the point that the hard times are hitting the black community with particular fervor. In a New York Times piece this weekend, Ehrenreich correctly pointed out that even high-income blacks were more likely than More…