From our nation’s founding to the present, government-sponsored and supported policies have relegated black Americans to the outskirts of mainstream society. Since the first Africans were forcibly brought, in 1619, to the shores of what would become the United States, slavery, Jim Crow, refusing loans to people who live in certain areas in the process […]
Author Archives: Ashley Harrington
Ashley Harrington is a senior policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending where her portfolio includes general consumer lending issues, with a particular focus on student debt.