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Goodbye, Payday Loans; Hello, Helpful Tech Startups and Other Options for 'Distressed Borrowers'
Right now in America, millions of consumers are considered “distressed borrowers.” These are people who can’t qualify for a credit card, get a mortgage to buy a home or take out an affordable personal loan to cover an emergency expense. And because the options that are available—typically, payday or car-title loans—don’t report to major credit…
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No More Fear: It’s Time to Reform Policing in Baltimore
On the evening of April 31, 2012, someone broke into Ashley Overbey’s home in Northeast Baltimore. When Overbey returned from work and noticed her home was awry, she called the police. The responding officers were rude, according to Overbey. They told her, “You live in Baltimore; what do you expect?” She called to file a…
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How the Kapor Center Serves as Our Brothers’ and Sisters’ Keeper
Cedric Brown sat three chairs down from President Barack Obama as he announced his My Brother’s Keeper initiative last week. But more importantly, moving forward, is that Brown has a seat at the table as the White House tackles the persistent crisis of young men of color in America. Brown and his colleague Nicole Sanchez…
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Justice Beyond Race: From Gloucester Revolts to MLK's 'Dream'
Writing at USA Today, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous uses the 350th anniversary of the Gloucester County Conspiracy — a revolt organized by black slaves and European indentured servants in Virginia — to describe the “original state of race relations” before race was introduced as a tactic to separate the disenfranchised. He also connects those…
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Why We Need to March on Washington 50 Years Later
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, writes at the Huffington Post that recent acts of voter suppression in Texas and South Carolina, the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act and George Zimmerman’s acquittal are just a few pressing reasons for a sequel to the historic March on Washington. The events…
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Building Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength
In light of the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, which kicked the case back to a lower court of appeals, America’s educational institutions should recommit to fair and thoughtful ways to foster diversity, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous blogs at the Huffington Post. “For a country regarded as the paramount leader in…
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NAACP: Respecting Black Farmers
Contending that there is no way to make up for decades of discrimination that crippled the proud history of black farmers, on the Huffington Post NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous checks in on the debate raging around a court settlement. There is no way to make up for decades of discrimination that crippled the…
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No 2nd-Class Families
Martin Luther King Jr. said that a threat to injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous agrees on the Huffington Post, where he writes that the struggles of immigrants and African Americans are parallel. So it is not difficult to empathize with the struggle of immigrants in our country.…
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Fighting Felon Disenfranchisement and Winning
In a victory for voters’ rights, felon-disenfranchisement laws are being overturned in Deleware, and NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous writes on the Huffington Post that it’s high time for the rest of the country to follow suit. The amendment, passed at the urging of the Delaware NAACP, allows people with nonviolent felony convictions…
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No Country for Black Teens
Writing at the Huffington Post, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous says the belief that African-American teenagers are inherently more likely to be criminals is ingrained in our society. One year later, the Trayvon Martin tragedy still stings — and some people are still throwing salt on the open wound. Last week George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert…
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