
Citizens Bank Partners With Black Girls CODE
A new partnership between Providence-based Citizens Bank and the nonprofit organization Black Girls CODE will give women and girls of color opportunities to get involved in the technology field.
A new partnership between Providence-based Citizens Bank and the nonprofit organization Black Girls CODE will give women and girls of color opportunities to get involved in the technology field.
The Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation has presented its 2020 Social Justice Award to Robert Lewis, Jr., the founder and president of The BASE.
The banking and real estate industries are grappling with massive uncertainty about the future of their businesses right now, but COVID-19 won’t change two things: the imperative to help fix systemic racism and stave off dramatic climate change.
Since George Floyd’s death, many banks have leapt forward with billions in pledges to communities of color. Those actions should be praised, but lenders must look beyond addressing racial diversity and economic inequality with charity if they want to thrive in a changing America.
Pittsfield-based Greylock Federal Credit Union announced it has joined the African American Credit Union Coalition, and plans to take a steps to strengthen access to financial services for Berkshires residents of color.
I constantly struggle with those who attempt to lay the blame for low minority homeownership rates at the feet of the mortgage lending industry. It is an extremely complex socioeconomic issue that requires a complex response.
Amid rising concern that a “tsunami” of evictions would strike Massachusetts renters on Aug. 18, Gov. Charlie Baker announced he is extending the state’s eviction moratorium through Oct. 17.
Community groups like the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the California Reinvestment Coalition and legal oversight group Democracy Forward say the Trump administration has been keen on gutting the CRA.
Among the new questions that developers are likely to face while seeking approvals: Would locally-owned businesses be displaced? And how will you market the development to encourage a diverse tenancy?
The banking industry has a long history of contributing to ongoing racial inequities with its lending policies and practices, but some banks want to reverse this damage.
America – and the banking and real estate industry – is waking up to just how deeply racism and white supremacy has been baked into our society. That can only be a good thing.
Only about a third of Black households in Greater Boston own their homes, while roughly 79 percent of area white households own their homes, thanks to decades discrimination.
Greater Boston’s rental housing industry has a serious racism problem, and it’s going to take effort from industry and government – including Attorney General Maura Healey – to solve.
As the commonwealth moves through Phase II of reopening, it’s hard to imagine the economy heading back to “normal” anytime soon. Many are even questioning if getting back to “normal” should be the goal.
When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his 7-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge resident decided to skip his local cycle shops in favor of a Black-owned one a few miles away in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.
Following a report from Suffolk University Law School that found widespread racism among apartment brokers in Greater Boston, two of the state’s largest real estate agent trade groups are calling for changes.
Black renters in Greater Boston face enormous and widespread hurdles to viewing apartments and finding brokers who will work with them, researchers from Suffolk University Law School and The Analysis Group found.
Black executives at a pair of leading Massachusetts community banks and one of its biggest contractors have joined with other corporate leaders of color in Massachusetts to launch a social justice fund to support minority communities.
The push to make Juneteenth a state holiday has backing from the House’s top Democrat.