by Stanley Augustin | Feb 1, 2012 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As we usher in 2012, it remains disheartening that unemployment rates for African-Americans and Latinos/Hispanics remain in the double digits, largely unchanged since this time last year. Far more must be done to address disparities in...
by Stanley Augustin | Nov 24, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
“The right to vote and choose our leaders is at the heart of what it means to be American and participate in our democracy. Right now, state legislatures are actively trying to make it harder for certain segments of our citizenry to vote and have their voices...
by Stanley Augustin | Aug 26, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
Forty-eight years ago, an iconic speech was delivered in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, a speech enjoining Americans to hope for and create a truly integrated society of racial equality. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech...
by Stanley Augustin | Aug 5, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
by Joseph D. Rich Over the last century, residential segregation and isolation of African Americans have been intractable features of housing patterns in the United States and sadly, this segregation did not occur by accident. Rather, they are a product of a complex...
by Stanley Augustin | Jul 21, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
As the economic downturn continues to plague employment, education and every other aspect of American living, including housing, it is imperative to note the ongoing loss of wealth in communities of color wrought by the loss of homeownership through foreclosures and...
by Stanley Augustin | Apr 14, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
With the 2012 election less than two years away, voter suppression efforts are already in high gear across the nation. There is a persistent and well-coordinated effort in state legislatures to deter minority, low-income, elderly, disabled and student voters from...
