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C e l e b r a t i n g 4 8 Ye a r s o f S e r v i c e
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Serving More Than 50,000 African American Readers Throughout The Metropolitan Area / Vol. 48, No. 37 June 27 - July 3 2013
Four Years
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A candlelight vigil on Saturday, June 22 marked the fourth anniversary of the Red Line train crash in which nine people were killed and 80 passengers injured. See Story on Page 20. /Photos by Khalid Naji-Allah and Roy Lewis
Blacks Still Face Job and Housing Discrimination Reports Show Problems to be Pervasive, Extensive By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer
Latrell White had everything going for her, the perfect job as a social worker, a nearly unblemished credit profile and a salary that allowed her the means to purchase a home in a tony neighborhood in the Dis-
trict. However, when the Washington, D.C. native asked her real estate agent about the availability of two houses in Dupont Circle in Northwest, the realtor appeared to cringe, she said. “It was as if I said a dirty word. I couldn’t understand it until I realized what was go-
ing on,” said White, 43. “They didn’t want my kind there. They didn’t want any more African Americans. My realtor also said banks might give me a hard time but I had already been approved for more than $450,000, so it didn’t make sense.” What made sense, White concluded, was that she had just
become a victim of housing discrimination. “I know minorities have for years been pushed to certain areas and we’ve been denied access to the so-called white areas of town, but I thought redlining was over,” White said. According to one government agency, redlining is alive
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and, according to a separate federal body, so is job discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in Northwest filed a lawsuit on June 10 accusing two companies of discriminating against blacks See DISCRIMINATION on Page 8
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