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Has the banking industry been held accountable for the housing crisis?

Credit: flickr/WordRiddenWe can barely keep track of all the settlements banks have been accepting in the face of multiple lawsuits over the irresponsible loans they made during the housing boom and their practices during the foreclosure mess that followed.



1-9-13: The Forgotten Women of the Abolition Movement

Web extra: Julie Roy Jeffrey discusses the relationship between William Lloyd Garrison and Baltimore's own Frederick Douglass, and what role abolitionists played in the Reconstruction era.



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