Media

By Ira Teinowitz

Forty-six congressmen -- many from the Congressional Black Caucus and from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus – Thursday night called on the Federal Communications Commission to hold off approving Comcast's deal for NBC Universal until a series of public hearings can be scheduled.

George Vashon broke many barriers as a black man in the 1800s. He was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and the first professor at Howard University. But there was one barrier he could not break — obtaining a law license in his home state of Pennsylvania, where his application was twice rejected because of his skin color.

by Matthew Jaffe

Seth Wheeler, who designed the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program, has left his post as a senior advisor at the Treasury Department.

Wheeler, who started at the agency under the Bush regime's Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, has reportedly gone to work for Habitat for Humanity.

by Zenitha Prince

For African Americans and other minorities financial reform is particularly important, advocates, lawmakers and officials said.