Dedrick Asante-Muhammad January 14, 2022 “Whenever I am asked my opinion of the current state, I am forced to pause; it is not easy to describe a crisis so profound that it has caused the most powerful nation in the world to stagger in confusion and bewilderment.” These are the…

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad January 26, 2022 This article was co-produced and co-published with Nonprofit Quarterly. Perhaps the most important lesson the past 50 years should have taught us by now is this: we cannot fix discrimination in housing via an anti-discrimination framework. …

King’s “Testament of Hope” sounds as relevant today as the day it was published. By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad January 12, 2022 2022 has begun with melancholy, as our country sees the pandemic reach new heights. Meanwhile our crises of climate, democracy, and inequality seem more entrenched than ever. All this uncertainty…

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Joshua Devine September 29th, 2021 This article was co-produced and co-published with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The United States is a country built on the genocide and taking of land of Indigenous peoples, as well as turning enslaved Africans into the private wealth of white citizens…

October 29, 2021 | Community Finance — After a tumultuous two years of unraveled reforms, the Community Reinvestment Act, known as the CRA, has a real chance of being modernized during the call for comments through October 29th. …

Posted to Politics October 26, 2021 by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad This October marks the 44th anniversary of the Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA. The CRA was designed to reduce the lending discrimination that’s left many Black and Brown neighborhoods impoverished. …

By Jamie Buell, Joshua Devine and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad / October 13, 2021 / Views In honor of Latino Heritage Month, this is one in a series of NCRC and infographics exploring racial economic and wealth disparities and the economic conditions of various Latino nationalities. The Latino population has experienced record…

D. Asante-Muhammad, Living in a Capitalist City with No Capital Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City details the rise and fall of the municipal bond market as an economic engine for municipalities. Destin Jenkins, a Professor of History at Stanford, focuses on the development of San Francisco and its use of the municipal bond market…

By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Joshua Devine — The United States is a country built on the genocide and taking of land of Indigenous peoples, as well as turning enslaved Africans into the private wealth of white citizens. This has created a nation whose riches are highly concentrated among white Americans. Even after landmark civil rights legislation in…