The Black Informant | African American Commentary, News and Community Building

This is the conclusion of a judge in Chicago who recently ruled that the 89-point requirement was a bit too high of a mark for minorities to reach:
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Chicago discriminated against African-American applicants who took a 1995 firefighter entrance exam, ending a long chapter in a seven-year legal battle.
The lawsuit [...]

Minority neighborhoods in Durham and elsewhere in North Carolina have three times the number of payday lenders as white neighborhoods of the same size — even taking into account income, age and gender, a Durham organization reported Tuesday.
The lenders, which give short-term, high-interest loans to cash-strapped borrowers, are widening the income gap between black and [...]