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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/31/2023
Can Activists Use Banking Regulations to Force Decarbonization?
by Bart Elmore
After Clinton-era reforms enabled consolidation of the banking industry, environmental groups in the early 2000s began to target the commercial banking sides of the firms that raised capital and provided credit to the fossil fuels industry.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/27/2022
The Freedman's Bank Forum Obscures the Institution's Real History
by Justene Hill Edwards
Vice President Kamala Harris's recent remarks at the forum enlisted the Freedman's Bank to celebrate public-private partnerships between banks and minority communities. The real history of the Freedman's Bank shows why public-private partnerships and moral uplift are inadequate to promote financial equity.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/13/2022
The Half-Century Road to the Student Debt Crisis
by John Thelin
A fatal mistake made by Congress in 1972 was to expand aid to students, imagined as consumers, through the Guaranteed Student Loan program, instead of subsidizing institutions to control costs.
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/22/2022
Is "Regulation from Below" Possible? Historian Rebecca Marchiel on Community Housing Activism
"Marchiel’s narrative paints the picture of a remarkably powerful national reinvestment campaign against an almost unstoppable force of ever more inventive flows of capital. Perhaps the lesson should have been that capitalism refuses to work for people."
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SOURCE: Public Books
12/13/2021
Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds
by Hannah Appel
"As your work so powerfully shows, the municipal bond market structures racial privilege, entrenches spatial neglect, and distributes wealth and power. American cities are dependent on financiers, rating agencies, and bond markets for nearly everything."
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SOURCE: Reuters
10/6/2021
Britain's Financial Hub Confronts its Involvement with Slavery
"Lloyd's and the Bank of England have each hired a historian to delve into their roles in the slave trade and are planning on publicizing the results in the next year."
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SOURCE: Governing
9/21/2021
Redlining Happened, but Not Exactly the Way We've Thought it Did
New economic research reinforces an argument made by historian Amy Hillier, that federal agencies didn't invent "redlining" but responded to widespread public prejudices that imagined Black residents as threats to neighborhood property value.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/1/2021
What History Can Teach Banks About Making Change
by Destin Jenkins
"Celebrating Juneteenth and recruiting more Black bankers is one thing. It is quite another for financial firms to use their unique power to actively undermine the systems that perpetuate racial inequality."
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
3/9/2021
The Roots of Racial and Spatial Inequality
by Kimberley S. Johnson
As part of the AAIHS's roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's "Race For Profit," urban studies scholar Kimberley Johnson looks at the ways that generations of housing policy enabled banks to write predatory loans to Black buyers, profiting first by high interest, then by foreclosure, while blaming outcomes on the individual irresponsibility of Black borrowers.
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SOURCE: The Nation
7/23/2020
What We Can Learn From Feminist Federal Credit Unions
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, women- and minority-owned businesses are still contending with unequal access to credit.
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SOURCE: NPR
5-10-18
Providence College Professor Investigates Slavery and Banking
She’s discovered slaves were used as collateral for loans.
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11-28-14
Banking on Crime
by William R. Polk
Why do so few citizens seem to care that banks are getting away with fraud?
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
12-5-13
NPR's Robert Siegel Needs a Reality Check
by Peter Dreier
Most of the workers who occupy Wall Street on a daily basis can't make ends meet. But neither can their $22,000-a-year counterparts in any other part of the country.