JUSTICE FOR THE BRENTWOOD COMMUNITY

THIS MAY BE THE BIGGEST ISSUE IN OUR NEXT LOCAL ELECTIONS!

An excellent study by Sarah Shoenfeld for the D.C. Policy Center reveals that when Brentwood, in Northeast Washington, was all White, during the 1930s, the Government protected that Community, even as restrictive covenants. “Mapping Segregation,” according to Ms. Shoenfeld, kept Blacks out.

After Mapping Segregation was declared unconstitutional by a federal court in 1948, Blacks moved in; but so did multitudinous, toxic, Industrial Facilities.…  

FORECLOSURE TSUNAMI EXPECTED – PROTECTING YOUR HOME WHEN YOU HAVE TENANTS

It has been so heartbreaking to me, being among one of less than a handful of attorneys regularly seeking to help homeowners who face foreclosure.  The Banks have an Army of lawyers. Close to eight million lost their homes as a result of the Recession of 2007 and 2008.  The Banks and Wall Street were bailed out by the Federal Government; Main Street was not.…  

CAN WE COUNT ON THE COURTS?

Thoughts from Sia Tiambi Barnes

Whilst the world mourns the deaths today of Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh and Earl “DMX” Simmons — royalty in his own right — President Joe Biden set a somber tone for his campaign trail promise to “see what recommendations” may be made for an “out of whack” U.S. court system.…