http://www.thedefendersonline.com A civil rights blog promoting informed discourse on issues of race, justice, equality and democracy. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:01:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/03/05/the-business-of-you-credit-card-rules-feel-more-like-a-shell-game/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/03/05/the-business-of-you-credit-card-rules-feel-more-like-a-shell-game/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:10:13 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=12525 Jackie Jones The Center for Responsible Lending...has laid out what the new credit card policy legislation that went into effect Feb. 21 really will and won’t do.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/03/05/the-business-of-you-credit-card-rules-feel-more-like-a-shell-game/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/the-missed-opportunity-of-a-lifetime/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/the-missed-opportunity-of-a-lifetime/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:38:35 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=12011 Leslie Proll When President Obama took office last January, hopes were high that the right wing’s long stronghold on the federal courts had come to an end. LDF and other civil rights advocates were eager for a new day when fair and impartial judges would once again be nominated and confirmed in large numbers.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/the-missed-opportunity-of-a-lifetime/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/obama-at-year-one/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/obama-at-year-one/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:31:02 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=12014 John Payton A year ago, we could barely contain our excitement as we contemplated a historic achievement. Barack Obama had won a decisive victory. There was widespread enthusiasm for his Presidency. Right after the election, Gallup reported that 68 percent of the public was proud that Obama was President. His choices of Senator Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State, of Eric Holder to be Attorney General and of Robert Gates to remain as Secretary of Defense were well received. His Inaugural speech was brilliant. We were looking forward to acknowledging and confronting fundamental problems that have plagued our society for decades.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/obama-at-year-one/feed/ 2 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/real-world-therapy-for-retail-bankers-five-steps-to-a-healthy-business-and-renewed-popularity/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/real-world-therapy-for-retail-bankers-five-steps-to-a-healthy-business-and-renewed-popularity/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:09:59 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=12002 Doug Miller Maybe, just maybe, America’s retail bankers really don’t get it. Despite being hauled before Congress, derided by the president and sinking like a bar of gold bullion in an increasingly choppy sea of public opinion, maybe they’re just incapable at this point of seeing the balance sheet for what it really is.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/22/real-world-therapy-for-retail-bankers-five-steps-to-a-healthy-business-and-renewed-popularity/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/12/15/the-business-of-you-creeping-costs-dig-deeper-in-your-pockets/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/12/15/the-business-of-you-creeping-costs-dig-deeper-in-your-pockets/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:46:34 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=11527 Jackie Jones You may not be able to get rid of all the fees, but you can make a dent in the pile and put a little more cash in your pocket or your savings account.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/12/15/the-business-of-you-creeping-costs-dig-deeper-in-your-pockets/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/10/09/tofu-baby-bok-choy-for-the-poor-or-the-yuppies/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/10/09/tofu-baby-bok-choy-for-the-poor-or-the-yuppies/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:19:53 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=10770 Stacey Patton
Could it be that all this sprucing up and stocking of healthier food has something to do with the influx of the neighborhood’s white residents?]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/10/09/tofu-baby-bok-choy-for-the-poor-or-the-yuppies/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/09/economy-%e2%80%93-jobs-report/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/09/economy-%e2%80%93-jobs-report/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:21:07 +0000 The Editors http://thedefendersonline.org/?p=2681 The Editors The monthly report of the federal Department of Labor found that employers cut 524,000 jobs last month – the latest in a series of alarming monthly job losses that added up to a total of 2.45 million jobs lost during all of 2008. There is widespread agreement among economists that the huge monthly job losses are far from over.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/09/economy-%e2%80%93-jobs-report/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/09/president-elect-obama-on-economy-%e2%80%98our-problems-are-rooted-in-our-past-mistakes-not-our-capacity-for-future-greatness%e2%80%99/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/09/president-elect-obama-on-economy-%e2%80%98our-problems-are-rooted-in-our-past-mistakes-not-our-capacity-for-future-greatness%e2%80%99/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:57:46 +0000 The Editors http://thedefendersonline.org/?p=2673 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/09/president-elect-obama-on-economy-%e2%80%98our-problems-are-rooted-in-our-past-mistakes-not-our-capacity-for-future-greatness%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/12/10/economic-crisis-hits-historically-black-colleges-hard/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/12/10/economic-crisis-hits-historically-black-colleges-hard/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:42:24 +0000 The Editors http://thedefendersonline.org/?p=1891 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/12/10/economic-crisis-hits-historically-black-colleges-hard/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/12/10/the-recession-a-challenge-for-black-america/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/12/10/the-recession-a-challenge-for-black-america/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:43:25 +0000 The Editors http://thedefendersonline.org/?p=1875 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/12/10/the-recession-a-challenge-for-black-america/feed/ 2 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/11/19/seeing-the-opportunity-in-our-crisis/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/11/19/seeing-the-opportunity-in-our-crisis/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:25:11 +0000 The Editors http://thedefendersonline.org/?p=1370 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/11/19/seeing-the-opportunity-in-our-crisis/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/11/10/americas-coldblack-americas-pneumonia/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/11/10/americas-coldblack-americas-pneumonia/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:32:07 +0000 The Editors http://thedefendersonline.org/?p=1050 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/11/10/americas-coldblack-americas-pneumonia/feed/ 0