“The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates  

From NPR Terry Gross: Fresh Air

A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america

From The Root

How Redlining Shaped Black America As We Know It



https://youtu.be/2o-yD0wGxAc

From In the Thick

The Legacy of Redlining

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-legacy-of-redlining/id1083701291?i=1000430216257

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