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Tag: credit

Charlene Crowell
Posted inFinancial Literacy

CROWELL: Banks Caught Redlining Against Blacks

by Charlene Crowell, Special to The Informer October 15, 2015October 30, 2020

The old adage, ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’ seems somehow an apt description for what a growing number of communities are suffering: a lack of fair lending.

Charlene Crowell
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