Date: 3/18/2009 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clutching pajamas for her three youngest kids, Janice Johnson straggled into a Skid Row homeless shelter on a recent night, frustrated and weary from another fruitless apartment hunt. The Midnight Mission was her last…
NAACP says bank giants steered blacks to bad loans
Date: 3/13/2009 By JESSE WASHINGTONAP National Writer The NAACP is accusing Wells Fargo and HSBC of forcing blacks into subprime mortgages while whites with identical qualifications got lower rates. Class-action lawsuits were to be filed against the banks Friday in…