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SOURCE: NPR
11/17/2021
Unenforceable Racial Covenants are Still Part of Property Deeds Across America
"I'd be surprised to find any city that did not have restrictive covenants," said LaDale Winling, a historian and expert on housing discrimination who teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
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SOURCE: Minnesota Daily
3/22/2021
Minneapolis Homeowners Can Now Reject Racial Covenants On Their Deed
Racial restrictive covenants have been legally unenforceable since 1948 and illegal under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but remain on the deeds of many older properties. A program in Minnesota allows homeowners to remove them.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/14/2020
The Black Lives Next Door
by Richard Rothstein
Activism for racial justice will not succeed until activists recognize how residential segregation has been made into a normal feature of the American landscape and pressure the developers and banks who have profited from it to take restorative action.
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