Illinois city hands out $25K cash payments to 44 Black residents through reparations program

Evanston's first-in-the-nation municipal reparations program is preparing $25,000 payments to 44 Black residents over past ...
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Evanston, Illinois, to begin paying reparations to some Black citizens this summer

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Evanston is a Chicago suburb of 75,000 people, and it's about to do something no other city has done in the country: pay reparations to some of its Black residents. "Our goal here in ...
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GU Law Professor Publishes Book Advocating for Reparations

A Georgetown University Law Center professor argued there is a historical precedent for paying reparations for the United States’ long history of enslaving Black people in a new book published Jan. 20 ...