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Evanston, Illinois’ Historic Reparations Program: What to Know Rita Omokha © Bloomberg The widespread demonstrations over racial injustice and policing in America last summer, spurred by the death of George Floyd, renewed calls for reparations. With this new attention to pay American descendants of slavery, many Democratic lawmakers proposed plans to address this urgency for their Black constituents. In late March, Evanston, Illinois, passed the first reparations plan to make money available to its Black residents. The proposal, which has been in the works since 2019, would give 16 eligible Black residents $25,000 to “build wealth through homeownership and home equity,” says Robin Rue Simmons, the alderman of Evanston’s 5th Ward, who introduced and led the effort. The money will be sourced from a new sales tax placed on legal adult-use cannabis. More sales of marijuana would mean more money available for the newly established slavery reparations fund. R

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