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Reparations for Amherst to speak at Town Council meeting
Updated May 14, 2021;
AMHERST – The Town Council has invited the community group Reparations for Amherst to discuss racial inequities at Monday’s meeting.
Co-founders Michele Miller and Matthew Andrews will present their views with two other Amherst residents, Amilcar Shabazz and Barbara Love. The group has written a 39-page report, “Report on Anti-Black Racism and Black/White Disparities in the Town of Amherst.”
The report addresses a number of areas of concerns including education, policing, health, employment and housing. It was written by Andrews, Miller, Jeff Fishman, Daiana Griffith, Mattea Kramer, Mary Porcino and Anita Sarro, and edited by Kramer.
Reparations forum set for Tuesday in Amherst
A car rolls past a rusted town line sign, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Amherst. AP FILE PHOTO/CHARLES KRUPA
Published: 4/23/2021 10:17:14 AM
AMHERST Historic and ongoing racial disparities among Amherst residents uncovered by a group seeking to find a way for the town to offer reparations to Black residents will be presented at a forum next week.
A virtual “Symposium on Reparations” takes place Tuesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring brief research presentations and talks by Reparations for Amherst co-founders Michele Miller and Matthew Andrews.
Miller said that discrepancies between Black and white residents in areas such as housing, education, health, transportation and upward mobility have been identified by participants, but that it was often a struggle to get statistics and only came after extensive digging.