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"The Case for Reparations" received critical acclaim and was named the "Top Work of Journalism of the Decade" by New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. [1] It also skyrocketed Coates' career and led him to write Between the World and Me, a New York Times Best Seller and winner of numerous nonfiction awards. It took Coates ...
Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. [2] Redlining has been most prominent in the United States, and has mostly been directed against African Americans, as well as Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States. [3]
Geographic assignment forces American families to “pay” for access to local public schools via their mortgages.
The NYC teachers’ union is coaching educators on how to help migrant kids and families avoid getting picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at home or in public – going beyond the ...
Movement for Justice in El Barrio was founded by immigrants and low-income people living in East Harlem, New York City. It is part of the fight against the effects of neoliberalism and discrimination in all of its forms and operates on a commitment to the ideals of self-determination, autonomy and participatory democracy .
Upset with Gov. Kathy Hochul, Harry Nespoli, the head of the umbrella group representing 300,000 New York City's municipal workers is urging Republican President-elect Donald to kill the reviled ...
Anne Witte Garland, "Gale Cincotta, 'We Found the Enemy,'" in Women Activists: Challenging the Abuse of Power (New York: The Feminist Press, 1988), pp. 38–55. Patrick Berry, "Gale Cincotta and Heather Booth ," in After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois , edited by Peg Knoepfle (Springfield: Sangamon State University, 1990), pp. 54–60.
Today’s local government land use stack of single-family zoning, minimum lot sizes, setbacks and other restrictions are little more than latter-day redlining.