And she is he writes and speaks of black politics, social movements and racial inequality in the United States. Shes here for her third book, race for profit how banks and the Real Estate Industry undermined black homeownership. Sorry. She will be in discussion with professor Dorothy E Roberts from the university of pennsylvania was a socioeconomic and social justice advocate. I would like to introduce keanngayamahtta taylor. [applause] hello everyone. Thanks for coming. My talk fourth talked of sweet. Very glad to be here in philly. I begin this project began this project in 20082009 and was most about chicago. Do i need this . Mostly about chicago. And detroit. And when i move to philadelphia, i found out there was a story here. So philly has been an important part of me writing this book so im very glad to be able to actually be here and talk to you. Its a difficult book to read from. Kind of tents. But readable. So what im going to do is give a kind of narrative arc that really cov
Step down. We will get the latest. Then as the Home Ownership rate for africanamericans falls to its lowest level since 1950, we speak with professor keeangayamahtta taylor, author of the new book race for profit how banks and the Real Estate Industry undermined black Home Ownership. An examination of federal policies e enacted after the federaral government taught pracactices of redliningng to te previous seveveral decades in te way that created new ways s for exploioitation and predatory practices involving real estate in africanamerican communities. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin in sochi, russia, today as the fiveday ceasefire between turkeys military and Syrian Kurdish groups expires at noon eastern time. Restart thet to offensive and crushed the heads of Syrian Kurdish forces if they dont withdraw from t
Step down. We will get the latest. Then as the Home Ownership rate for africanamericans falls to its lowest level since 1950, we speak with professor keeangayamahtta taylor, author of the new book race for profit how banks and the Real Estate Industry undermined black Home Ownership. An examination of federal policieses enacted after the federal government taught prpractices of redlinining to te previous s several decades in te way that created new wayays for explploitation and predatory practices involving real estate in africanamerican communities. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin in sochi, russia, today as the fiveday ceasefire between turkeys military and Syrian Kurdish groups expires at noon eastern time. Restart thet to offensive and crushed the heads of Syrian Kurdish forces if they dont withdraw from the
And you have to go no further than this sundays New York Times, the sunday review, front page cover. It looks like a red cross tilted on its side with the headline sorry, we dont take obamacare. Sorry, we dont take obamacare. I see the minority leader come to the floor, harry reid, and talking about how wonderful it is. The president says forcefully defend and be proud. Of what . Of something that, sorry, we dont take obamacare. Now, this is the New York Times, a newspaper whose Editorial Board has supported this Health Care Law. They talk about the pains of the Health Care Act frustrating patients. Amy modas and her circle of selfemployed Small Business owners were supporters, were supporters of president obama and the Affordable Care act. They bought policies on the newly created new york state exchange. We have two Democratic Senators from new york. Where are they to respond to whats happened to the people of their home state as a result of this law . They bought insurance policies
Internet caucus taking a look at internet privacy and personal data protection. The chair of the Federal Reserve, janet yellen, testified on the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy appearing before the House Financial Services committee on wednesday for about three hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to suggest a recess for the committee at any time. This is the annual testimony on the Federal Reserves supervision and regulation of the Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. The dodd frank act requires the Federal Reserves vice chair of supervision to testify before our Committee Twice a year regarding the supervision and regulation of Financial Institutions. Regrettably, five years after the passage of dodd frank, no such person exists. President obama has been unwilling or unable to follow the law in a point at vice chair. We can no longer wait for the president to do his job so we can be al