The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found evidence of redlining, along with "racist and derogatory content" in emails among loan officers.

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The Consumer Federation of America says proposed changes to Regulation B would erode core civil rights protections in lending ...

It’s been a little over a month since a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, where a gunman killed 10 and injured three in a racist attack on a grocery store. Since then, the Department of Justice has ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its 2022 Fair Lending Annual Report to Congress last week, which illustrates how it took aim last year at redlining and appraisal ...

Systemic racism is a term we have all — hopefully — become conversant with during these past weeks; it is one of the most indestructible weapons used to obstruct people of color and our nation from ...

The Justice Department has secured $122 million from a dozen banks and mortgage companies in redlining cases since Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the agency's Combat Redlining Initiative ...

First National Bank of Pennsylvania said that it is "deeply disappointed" that the government started an investigation despite the fact that it only entered the Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North ...

HBCUs across the Black rural south have long struggled with broadband access. With many HBCUs suffering from unstable internet connections, one school hopes to be the game-changer against digital ...

Decades of housing discrimination hasn’t only depressed home values and erased opportunities for building wealth among generations of mostly minority Americans. The now-illegal collusion between banks ...

The days of legally sanctioned race-based housing discrimination may be behind us, but the legacy of attitudes and practices that kept nonwhite citizens out of some neighborhoods and homeownership ...