Thread by @KarinSung_, Brief summary of Elizabeth Warren’s racial justice and bankruptcy fight, dating back [...]

Brief summary of Elizabeth Warren’s racial justice and bankruptcy fight, dating back to 1975

1975: “Warren's first law review article criticized Supreme Court anti-busing ruling” https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/politics/elizabeth-warren-busing-desegregation-kfile/index.html

Elizabeth Warren's first law review article blasted an anti-busing court ruling

Warren's law review article sheds a new light on an early-career stance on busing previously unknown that stands in stark contrast to Vice President Joe Biden in the 1970s.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/politics/elizabeth-warren-busing-desegregation-kfile/index.html

1981: advised on law review article “Tax Exemptions for Racially Discriminatory Religious Schools”
https://www.law.virginia.edu/system/files/faculty/hein/laycock/60tex_l_rev259_1982.pdf

1986: authored “The dispersal of subsidized housing in Chicago: an index for comparisons” then cited in “Assisted Housing and Residential Segregation”
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lance_Freeman/publication/249052039_Assisted_Housing_and_Residential_Segregation_The_Role_of_Race_and_Ethnicity_in_the_Siting_of_Assisted_Housing_Developments/links/0f31753bbdc84e805b000000.pdf

1992: advised a law review article that includes discussion on race and interracial children “‘Who Owns the Child?’: Meyer and Pierce and the Child as Property”

https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1902&context=wmlr

Late 1990s: “Warren got a call from the White House asking if she'd meet with Clinton to discuss bankruptcy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/how-hillary-clinton-once-disappointed-elizabeth-warren-on-wall-street-reform/455154/

How Hillary Clinton Once Disappointed Elizabeth Warren on Wall Street Reform

As a senator, Clinton doubled back on the advice Warren once gave her.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/how-hillary-clinton-once-disappointed-elizabeth-warren-on-wall-street-reform/455154/

2004: authored
“The Economics of Race: When Making It to the Middle Is Not Enough”

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1422&context=wlulr

2004: published the book “The Two-Income Trap” and is later cited in 2005 law review article

“Caught in the Trap: Pricing Racial Housing Preferences”
https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1593&context=mlr

2009: advised and was cited in “A Tale of Two Debtors: Bankruptcy Disparities by Race“
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1493&context=faculty_scholarship

2009: authored “Making Credit Safer”
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/12967874/Making%20Credit%20Safer.pdf?sequence=1

2011: founded the CFPB, which Center for American Progress describes as “essential in protecting vulnerable communities from discriminatory financial practices that have led to the current racial wealth gap.”
11/x https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2017/03/28/429270/communities-color-cannot-afford-weakened-cfpb/

Communities of Color Cannot Afford a Weakened CFPB - Center for American Progress

The Trump administration and Congress are threatening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s role in defending communities of color in banking.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2017/03/28/429270/communities-color-cannot-afford-weakened-cfpb/

2015: gave speech about Black Lives Matter—“It comes to us to once again affirm that black lives matter, that black citizens matter, that black families matter.“ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/27/elizabeth-warren-just-gave-the-speech-that-black-lives-matter-activists-have-been-waiting-for/

Elizabeth Warren just gave the speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for

'None of us can ignore what is happening in this country,' Warren says. 'Black lives matter.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/27/elizabeth-warren-just-gave-the-speech-that-black-lives-matter-activists-have-been-waiting-for/

2018: celebrated Juneteenth in Boston

2018: released bill to combat modern day redlining https://www.revealnews.org/blog/sen-warren-offers-bill-overhauling-bank-laws-combating-racial-discrimination/

Sen. Warren's new bill is designed to combat modern-day redlining | Reveal

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a bill that one advocate said would be the first law since 1968 "to redress a century of housing discrimination."

https://www.revealnews.org/blog/sen-warren-offers-bill-overhauling-bank-laws-combating-racial-discrimination/

2019: releases agenda for Black America https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/agenda-black-america

A Working Agenda for Black America | Elizabeth Warren

We must recognize the systemic discrimination that infects our economy, and we must work actively - and deliberately - to root it out and set us on a better path.

https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/agenda-black-america

2020: Ranked #1 for her agenda for Black America https://www.theroot.com/every-democratic-candidates-black-agenda-ranked-1841959166/

Every Democratic Candidates' 'Black Agenda,' Ranked

On Saturday, voters in South Carolina will sound the starting gun for the race to the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. After giving white America a head start on selecting...

https://www.theroot.com/every-democratic-candidates-black-agenda-ranked-1841959166/

2020: https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1278811439688540160?s=21 https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1278811439688540160