Fairness In Foreclosures
Buffalo News Editorial (Staff) December 23, 2022 Legislation would restore sanity to the judicially broken statute of limitations Read the full article here Buffalo News
Category: 2022
An Intimate Look at the Life of Jean-Michel Basquiat
David Kaufman September 26, 2022 Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of a handful of late-20th-century artists with near-universal name recognition. Read the full article here Life and Money
Wealth Building Won’t Work While Wealth Extraction Continues
Jeremie Greer February 14, 2022 Typical approaches to closing the racial wealth gap focus on ways to help Black households build wealth. But for that to stick, we must also stop siphoning their wealth...
Top Heavy: Countries by Share of the Global Economy
Avery Koop December 29,2022 The majority of global economic activity comes from just a handful of countries, with the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, and India making up the top five. Read the full article...
“My City’s So White, I Moved”
Brandon Duong September 7, 2022 “Gentrification is a child stealing the toy they said they never wanted to play with.” Read the full article here Shelterforce
The Racists Next Door: Black Homebuyers Face Discrimination After Purchasing, Too
Thalia Giraldo November 18, 2022 The danger of unwelcoming neighbors should not be underestimated. Read the full article here Shelterforce
The Long History of Residential Segregation in Buffalo
Henry Taylor September 12, 2022 Buffalo is one of the most segregated urban centers in the United States, and the high concentration of Black people on the East Side is what attracted a racist killer to...
Black leaders on Buffalo’s East Side are building markets to address food insecurity
Claretta Bellamy December 1, 2022 The historic Fruit Belt neighborhood on Buffalo’s East Side, with its Grape, Peach and Lemon streets, was once thriving. Yet now, in place of the orchards that once gave...
Black Politics Beyond The 2022 Midterm Elections: An Interview With Dr. Ron Daniels
DaQuan Lawrence November 9, 2022 President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), Dr. Ron Daniels, met with The Hilltop to discuss national and world politics, the importance of African Americans...
How Tax Assessments in a Supposedly Progressive County Are Reinforcing Racism
Amanda Abrams September 16, 2022 Buncombe County in North Carolina was one of the first places in the U.S. to support reparations for Black residents. So why is the county not doing a better job...