The New England Area Conference (NEAC) of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) filed an amicus brief with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

“This filing represents a historic step towards ending predatory and discriminatory home lending
practices and illegal foreclosures in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We are proud to provide
Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court, with an opportunity to address and correct the impact of
160 years of discriminatory lending practices,” said Maurice Powe, lead counsel for NEAC and
legal redress committee chair for the Springfield Branch of the NAACP.

The case, Bank of New York Mellon as Trustee on Behalf of the Registered Holders of Alternative
Loan Trust 2006-J7, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-J7 v. Alton King, case
number SJC-12859, is presently under reconsideration.

NEAC has worked for over a decade with the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending
(MAAPL) to end the illegal and predatory mortgage lending targeted to Blacks and other people
of color. “This truly authoritative brief is a crash course in the criminal ploys by which the
American mortgaging industry still reduces Black homebuyers to stifling economic deprivation,"
explained Sarah McKee, formerly General Counsel of Interpol for the U.S., who has volunteered
with MAAPL since 2014.

“I am so proud that NEAC has entered this brief in my SJC appeal," said Alton King of Long
Meadow explained, “These loans that were doomed to fail, designed to be foreclosed from
inception, have ruinously extracted generational wealth from targeted communities, people of
color and economically disenfranchised groups."

“The Alton King case is unfortunately just one of thousands of Massachusetts homeowners
targeted by discriminatory and illegal lending practices; it has damaged disproportionately Blacks
and other borrowers of color. In fact, these practices have damaged the fabric of and caused
overwhelming damage to the American economy" said Juan Cofield, president of NEAC. He
stated further that" for a century, the NAACP has worked through the courts to enforce the US
Constitution, federal and state laws to ensure that all citizens are guaranteed equal opportunity for
liberty and justice.” (END)