When it comes to homeownership, Hispanics in New Jersey, single parents in California and senior citizens in Rhode Island all have something in common: More than a third have an unaffordable mortgage. Inequality in America has traditionally followed familiar patterns of race, age and education. Those long-standing gaps have been magnified by the real estate […]
January 27, 2009 | Posted in Co-feature,Nation,Real Estate | Read more »
As Senator-designee Kirsten Gillibrand left Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network office in Harlem around noon on Saturday, she was questioned by an enraged constituent asking about the racially charged police shooting cases involving Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, and Oscar Grant. The man wanted her to state for the record that in each case the […]
January 27, 2009 | Posted in Co-feature,Nation,Politics | Read more »
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s aides, who ran the most tech-savvy US election campaign in history, were forced into a red-faced admission Monday — … Read full story
January 27, 2009 | Posted in Co-feature,Obama Watch | Read more »