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Leon, Feilce, et al. “How Redlining Shaped Black America As We Know It | Unpack That”

The Root, Apr. 2019 

Summary 

This video talked about all the ways in which red lining has shaped black america as we know it as the title suggests. In this video our host Feilce Leon, introduces what red lining was and the two programs that enforced housing segregation, the first one being the Public Work Administration and the Home Owners Loan corporation. The federal housing administration created low interest mortgages and essentially as Leon put it in the video “told banks to build everyone’s houses even if they don’t actually ever pay it back, a loan will still be guaranteed  except for if they are black.”  Leon went on to explain that the FHA’s manual was a racist manual that enabled redlining and can easily be defined by a direct quote from the manual and that was that “Prohibition of the occupancy of properties except by the race for which they are intended.” As the video progresses Michael Harriot comes in to explain the history of redlining and explains that banks have been caught using redlining maps as early as 2015. They also explain how wealth and criminal justice has been impacted by redlining and then pass the mic over to Nikole Hannah-Jones to explain how its impacted education.