Join us for our conversation with guest Theresa Brown, Esq, in Election Challenges Episode 3: The Polls. Theresa follows Larry Hamm and Mary Nelson from our previous two episodes. In the episode we’ll be looking at the experiences the voter may have when they arrive at the polls. This year voters will experience many challenges … Election Challenges Episode 3: The Polls
In conjunction with our podcast series on election challenges we gathered Election 2020 Information and Resources to aid our listeners. COVID-19 CHALLENGES The COVID-19 pandemic jeopardized many routine voting procedures. Senior citizens cannot be poll workers because they would be at risk for catching the coronavirus. Some States haphazardly enacted measures to allow voting by … Election 2020 Information and Resources
We continue Election Challenges Episode 2: Independent Candidates with candidates who are not main stream as the focus. Our last podcast was with Mary Nelson, who worked in the administration of Jay Nixon, the former governor of Missouri. Nixon was the Democratic party’s candidate and ran with their full support. Our guest in this episode … Election Challenges Episode 2 : Independent Candidates
The upcoming 2020 election poses more challenges than any other election in the recent past. In the run-up to the election we talked with three former Black elected officials. They discussed the challenges they faced in their runs for office. The discussion was so interesting we decided to continue it over three episodes. In this … Election Challenges Episode 1: Party Backed Administrations
We are including some resources below on banks and community development to supplement the discussion in Episode 2 of our podcast. It continues the discussion on black home ownership. Bob Hunter noted that banks are primarily concerned with risks. Risk calculation itself could also be based on layered institutional racism. Desiree Hunter discussed some of … Banks and Community Development Resources
This week we look at how bank policies effect Black home ownership. In our last episode we discussed COVID’s impact on black home ownership and mortgage foreclosures. That discussion led us to take a deeper look institutional bank practices. In this episode, our guests talk about lending from the bank’s perspective. Community advocates however view … Bank Policies Effect Black Home Ownership COVID-19 Part 2
As the coronavirus was sweeping through Asia and Europe, few politicians in the United States admitted that we could end up experiencing the same kind of suffering here. When the virus finally arrived, not one sector of the government was prepared for how to handle the crisis. The lack of a unified federal approach contributed … Helpful Resources for Black Home Owners on Mortgage Foreclosure
Black Home Ownership is being impacted by COVID. This may be devastating given the already low rate of home ownership as reported by the Urban Institute.