impacts blacks and hispanic families. gillian: one tennessee county is joining a growing list of municipalities considering a reparations program of their own. shelby county, which is memphis, would use covid relief dollars. grady, how much of the covid funds are they planning to use? gillian, the proposal in shelby county, tennessee could take as much as $5 million and use it not to send checks in the mail for reparations, but create a reparations committee. the committee would then look into potentially creating a long-term reparations program. the vote could come as you ment mentioned as early as this afternoon. providence, rhode island is using $10 million in taxpayer money. the two programs are unique from the eight other cities and
grady trimble with fox business has more from the hill on this. what did you find out? our researchers found that at least ten cities, counties and states have recently considered some sort of reparations programs. of those ten, at least two of them are proposing using federal taxpayer dollars from the american rescue plan to fund them. providence, rhode island and shelby county, tennessee including memphis. shelby county wants to use $5 million in pandemic relief money to study the possibility of a longer-term reparations program. in a statement to fox business he defends that use arguing it addresses the negative impacts of the pandemic to include assistance to households and communities while promoting affordable housing, assistance to small businesses, aid to impacted industries, addressing health and educational
After seeing the former Catholic priest he accuses of sexually abusing him be released from prison, a Denver man has filed a civil lawsuit against the ex-priest, the Archdiocese of Denver.
A man who says he was repeatedly sexually abused as a teen by his Catholic priest more than two decades ago filed a lawsuit against the now-defrocked priest and the Archdiocese of Denver, taking advantage of a recently passed law that allows victims to sue even if the statute of limitations has expired.