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Civil Rights Leaders to Fight Lending Bill

Friday, March 25

Consumer advocates are bringing out big names from the civil rights world to try to keep a lending industry-backed bill on predatory mortgage lending from rolling through Congress the way recent bankruptcy legislation did.

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and their groups are joining with consumer groups to oppose a bill introduced earlier this month by Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Financial Services housing subcommittee, and Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D-Pa.), the senior Democrat on the capital markets subcommittee.

The National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights has published an article in the Clearinghouse Review examining the potential impact of the Civil Rights Act of 2008. You can read the summary of the article here, or download the full pdf version of the article.

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