Redlining

Have you ever felt that lenders or real estate professionals are not providing full services to you or the Black community because of race? Your feeling or intuition may be due to redlining…and we need to fight back! Redlining Defined Redlining can be defined as discriminatory practices that remove access to services…

The mapping of space and/as algorithmic redlining — This essay was written as part of a Digital Media Theory course that I took between September — December 2022 at the University of Michigan, taught by Prof. Lisa Nakamura. The goal of the essay was to write about the digital, while drawing primarily from course readings. The essay is…

Earlier this year, when I was on the hunt for a new apartment, I kept being met with the same specific pet policies and breed restrictions every step of the way. And at a certain point, my standards dropped to just somewhere that was affordable where I could also legally…

Understanding the impact of systemic racism can lead to a better understanding of other Americans — For many years I voted mostly Republican, with a few exceptions. My voting straight Republican stopped in 2010 due to the craziness of the tea party and ended completely with the election of Trump in 2016. But my change from being a right-leaning centrist to fully embracing most Democratic policy…

Home to dimly lit restaurants and bars frequented by NYU students and young professionals, the Lower East Side (LES) of Manhattan is in many ways the epitome of New York City’s youthful heart. …

A Substack author showed more than a dozen emails from various officials at Stripe detailing Stripe’s move to block payments to Substack authors. …

How the IBM Security design team used Figma to communicate our design language’s spacing tokens to developers Figma: It’s a collaborative, web-based tool to design flows, mockups, prototypes, and more. Designers and developers can edit and comment on any part of the design at the same time. It offers a…

NJ entered a +$20M settlement with the former mortgage lender and real estate broker for engaging in racially discriminatory “redlining.” Earlier this week NJ Attorney General announced that New Jersey has entered into a historic settlement agreement with the former home mortgage lender Trident Mortgage Company LP and the real estate brokerage Fox & Roach LP after they illegally engaged in racially discriminatory “redlining” in their lending practices.