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Dear America, it’s time to fulfill the promises of the Fair Housing Act

April is National Fair Housing Month and as the month comes to an in depth, it is crucial that we reflect on the work that continues to be to ensure fair housing for . This is much more vital as we proceed to take a look at a worsening housing and homelessness crisis that disproportionately affects people of color, families with children, women, individuals with disabilities and other members of protected classes. To truly deliver on the promise of fair housing, we must make equitable, long-overdue investments in housing and community development.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968, only one week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The country was still scuffling with this incalculable loss. Just two years earlier, Dr. King had founded the Chicago Freedom Movement to fight housing and economic inequality. It was this movement activity that led to the passage and subsequent passage of the Fair Housing Act.
The Fair Housing Act, as amended, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, religion, disability and familial status. Unfortunately, as a nation, because we’ve failed to fully fund and implement this law, systemic and blatant discrimination and inequality proceed to plague every aspect of American life.
The passage of the Fair Housing Act also got here after President Johnson famously created the law Kerner Commission examining the dynamics of the race riots that broke out across the country in 1967. The commission’s report confirmed that housing discrimination and institutionalized racism create racial tensions and contribute to the creation of “two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” The commission made several key recommendations on housing, including significantly increasing the supply of inexpensive housing for low-income families and opening up access to white neighborhoods for people of all races, something we’ve not yet achieved. It is not any wonder that persistent housing discrimination and unequal community development remain the cause of many racial and economic injustices in America.
Over the years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and native fair organizations received housing record levels housing discrimination complaints reported every year, including greater than 33,000 in 2022 alone. But we all know that discrimination is woefully underestimated. At least in 2018 1 in 4 peopleor 68 million, felt they were treated in a different way when searching for housing because of their status as a member of a protected class under the Fair Housing Act.
Other barriers, e.g redlining, exclusion zone and land use ordinances proceed to prevent members of protected classes from accessing decent housing. It’s the same in lots of communities across the country more segregated today than in 1990, further widening racial and ethnic gaps in poverty, wealth and residential ownership. Actually, Black and Latino renters are twice as likely to be evicted compared to white tenants they usually are overrepresented amongst the homeless population. Our nation also faces widening racial wealth and homeownership gaps, with the average net value of homeowners – who’re more likely to be white – being 40 times greater than that of renters. Meanwhile, in the case of disabled people, the possibilities of integration and housing availability are severely limited, including: data showing that lower than 1% of U.S. homes are wheelchair accessible and only 5% are accessible to individuals with moderate disabilities. We even saw it some local governments proceed to use federal housing and community funds in discriminatory ways in which violate the Fair Housing Act.
While the Fair Housing Act has undoubtedly expanded housing and economic opportunities for tens of millions of families across the United States, President Johnson said it best himself: “We’ve come some way, not almost all of it. There is still a lot to do.” That’s why I proceed to work closely with my colleagues in the House to fight for historic investments that can make this goal a reality. While Democrats secured greater than $20 million in fair housing enforcement investments through the American Rescue Plan Act, rather more is required.
Last 12 months, I reintroduced my historic housing package to proceed our efforts, including the Housing Crisis Response Act, the Ending Homelessness Act, and the Home Equity Downpayment Act. Together, these bills represent the largest and most comprehensive investment in fair and inexpensive housing in U.S. history. I call on our nation’s leaders to work with me to help address the urgent need to end the U.S. housing crisis and fulfill the promise of fair housing for all.
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The candidate of the mayor of New York Zellor Myrie releases a black program

New York Senator Zellor Myrie released his black program for New York He reports that before the Mayor’s campaign in New York.
His The agenda deals with 4 key points The increase in the black wealth of the community – international, public health, economic development and climate resistance and infrastructure repair – all based on his experience growing up in Brooklyn. “I grew up around Black New Yorkers who understood that if you were working hard, you had the opportunity to succeed in this city. Being on the road to success,” said Myrie during a press conference.
“But for too many black New Yorkers this is no longer a reality. The city is different, and the next mayor of this city must have a plan that will help black New Yorkers.”
Myrie’s term of office as a senator of state from 2019 has placed him to support civil rights of black New Yorkers.
Together with the latest administration of Trump in office, a 38-year-old politician believes that one should concentrate on protecting pioneering citizenship by black leadership, because he says: “We have a president who clearly attacks black people throughout the country. The president, who eliminates disputes regarding civil rights, accuses employees of accused of enforcing civil rights,” said the candidate for Rican.
“The victories that we have fought for decades to achieve are now erased under this president.”
It has a strategy coping with all points in the public program, with one of the premises is accessible to everyone. When parents have difficulty obtaining inexpensive childcare in the city, Myrie He proposed an out -of -school program that may be free and would come with children from the age of three to seniors of high schools. . progRAM will operate until 18:00 on weekdays and guarantees Stains in a free summer academic city and the enrichment youth program.
Others concentrate on his program include the establishment of the Fund for Buyers of First Generation Houses and counting on regulations regarding anti -discrimination in mortgage loans. While coping with public security, Myrie announced plans to expand the program of each CountS block, a pilot program launched in October 2024, which directs the prevention of violence using weapons. Taking public health, his agenda positions funds for dedicated delivery centers in black superiority districts and the extension of the Medicaid range for Doulas and midwives in the hope of reducing the high mortality of moms amongst black women.
His plan may even take care of mental health resources, implement free mental health services and a profession path for young black men and launches the center of trauma in the Rockaways districts in Queens.
Along with the democratic basis, which took place on June 24, 2025, Myrie collected nearly $ 4 million donations during her campaign, but is one of 4 black candidates applying for the mayor’s place. Candidates are the current mayor Eric Adams, Marshal of the City Council of Adrienne Adams and a former member of the Congregation Michael Blake.
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Trump’s staff are trying to stop the “abuse” of Elon Musk’s relationship with the president, who cannot demand him because “there is no leverage over him, and Elon gives Zero FS”

He is a spoiled brat of the inner circle of the magician, opening the thumb with Donald Trump’s “Tatus”, seemingly remaining a privileged son.
A jealous older brother Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Trump, who once enjoyed the same close president, declared war with the younger, richer Nemesis a couple of months ago, swearing that he banished him on January 20.
But this date has passed, and Elon is still standing, often alongside the president.

However, this week, the General Director of Tesla could go too far. Musk undermined Trump’s announcement on Tuesday about an investment price $ 500 billion in the infrastructure of artificial intelligence, claiming that supporters of the “Stargate project” only a fraction of the proposed investments price $ 500 billion.
He even published a joke This suggested that the directors were burning Crack “to come up with the number of $ 500 billion for Stargate.”
Bannon saw, telling Musk journalists, “he should not reverse what the president was already talking about. This is unacceptable and unsatisfactory. You see how he is out of control.”
Trump, when asked about the number of Musk’s failures at a press conference on Friday, seemed to move his arms.
“I mean that Elon does not like one of these people,” Trump replied, referring to musk contempt for the general director of OPENAI Altman itself, one of the primary investors of the Stargate project.
That’s all? No pink slip? Even insult? What does the President’s Musk have?
“It is obvious that he abused the proximity of the president,” Trump’s ally he said Politico. “The problem is that the president has no levers over him, and Elon gives zero f – s.”
As Politico noted: “It is very unusual for the senior adviser-Muska-in public to criticize the president’s initiatives, and his broadly favorable speculation in GOP circles about whether he and Trump will finally seem.”
But there are no signs of the upcoming breakup. Trump is unable to hide his feelings and although there have been reports that he has enough musk, the general director of Starlink retains almost unusual access to the president.
Musk even has an office in West Wing, during which he pilots the “Department of Government”, an advisory commission created by Trump to eliminate waste in the federal government.
“We are now working with him to understand his ideas – the ideas are innovative. Make done not so much,” said a political official of the White House.
Bannon called on the chief of staff of Susie Wiles to “sit (musk) down” and “immediate sorting”.
He should already know: no person puts Elon in the corner.
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Black historians and leaders condemn the executive order of Trump addressed to the Smithsonian African American Museum: “Literal attack on Black America” - essence

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, near the Washington monument. (Photo: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group by Getty Images)
One of the latest executive orders of President Trump is to arouse serious slack and for a reason. New order entitled “Restoring truth and mental health to the history of America” He follows the Smithsonian institution particularly the National Museum of History and Culture of African American-conquering it consisting in pushing “a divisible, focused ideology on the race.”
But about this: the executive order ignores key facts about the history of America, akin to the founders’ fathers wrote slavery in the structure and announced enslaved people as three fifth people.
As Essence informed earlier, the order is about by JD Vance Vice President liable for reviewing the museum content and gives the internal secretary Doug Burgum the right to examine whether any monuments have been removed or modified “to consolidate a false reconstruction of America’s history.” In other words, direct effort is to rewrite history to match the president’s narrative – one which removes the influence of racism and black contribution to the nation.
In 2017, at the starting of his first term, Trump actually praised the African American Museum and culture, saying that “he was deeply proud, that there is now a museum that honors millions of African Americans and women who built our national heritage.” Now he conducts the effort to undermine the institution itself, which he once called the treasure. But historians and black leaders don’t withdraw. As Clarke put it: “Let’s be a bright, black story is America’s story. Every rhetoric that opposes this concept is not only incorrect, but grossly racist.”
Historians, supporters of civil rights and black political leaders shouldn’t have this. Here’s what that they had to say about the latest attempt to whiten history.
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