Here’s Why Holding Off Evictions And Foreclosures Isn’t Enough For Black People During COVID-19

Source: CHANDAN KHANNA / Getty A new report from the Thurgood Marshall Institute at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) shows how housing and wealth disparities suffered by Black people will result in a disproportionate number of Black folks losing their homes. According to the report, “1 in 4 Black households spend more than half of their income on housing as compared to 1 in 10 White households.” The report further shows how the current economic crisis due to the coronavirus was already proceeded by unstable housing for Black folks that stretches back years. A detailed and holistic approach will have to be taken so that Black folks can recover from the economic downturn caused by COVID-19. The issues Black people face in terms of housing can be stretched back nearly a century, however, the report listed the 2008 foreclosure crisis as a pivotal moment in which many Black people couldn’t recuperate from housing loss. “Even after the post-2008 recovery, Black fam..

5 minutes with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect behind The New York Times’ ‘1619 Project’

Journalists like words. And when the right words are put together with data and research (well-known or otherwise), things can happen. Nikole Hannah-Jones, investigative reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of “The 1619 Project,” knows this firsthand. The project hit newsstands in late summer — marking the anniversary of 400 years that have...

2020 Atlanta 500: Religion, Nonprofits, & Advocacy

Piedmont Park Photograph by Martha Williams Advocacy | Nonprofit Organizations | Religion | Legends ADVOCACY Stacey AbramsFounder and ChairFair Fight Action After serving 11 years in the Georgia House of Representatives, including seven as minority leader, Stacey Abrams became the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia in 2018. The first black woman to receive a major-party nomination in a gubernatorial race in the U.S.,...

Hot or Haute? Issa Rae Took Cosmo’s ‘Expensive Taste Test’—and Made Us Reconsider Our Quarantine Spending

It’s well-discussed fact around here at The Glow Up (and The Root, at large) that Issa Rae’s glow up is our favorite glow up. Already a beautiful woman—albeit by her own branding, both “awkward” and “insecure”—Rae has emerged as one of Hollywood’s number one stunnas, shutting down red carpets on the regular with hair… Read more...