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Either to expiate their guilt – or to exploit the guilty – city council members in Evanston, Illinois, recently approved the nation's first actual reparations program. Sensing that arguments about slavery and Jim Crow would not have much purchase in this youthful city, the activists focused on housing, a grievance of more recent vintage. Thus,…
In March, City Council approved a direct cash payment option for all recipients of the city’s reparations program, following years of community advocacy for the option. However, many local activists still feel the Restorative Housing Program currently does not do enough to repair harm against Black residents from decades of discriminatory policies. The program was.
Fifty years ago, Evanston residents couldn’t buy or sell liquor in the city. But now, the former “dry town” has become home to a range of restaurants and liquor stores that serve a variety of alcoholic drinks. Evanston’s identity as a dry town marked its commitment to maintaining moral authority and responsibility to protect its.
Rose Cannon said she still remembers the excitement she felt at an early Evanston town hall on reparations in December 2019. A few weeks prior, the city had become the first in the country to pass a reparations resolution, which aimed to address the history of opportunity and wealth disparities affecting Black residents. More than.