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Asheville City Council Tuesday approved $2.1 million for the reparations fund for the city s Black community. But what the money will be spent on is still unknown, as the truth telling sessions the city is holding to determine what form reparations will take continue throughout June.
The $2.1 million council members approved comes from proceeds of the sale of city-owned land on Charlotte Street to White Labs Inc. The approximately $3.7 million sale involved land Asheville acquired through its Urban Renewal program in the late 1960 s and early 1970 s which devastated Black communities in the city. The other $1.6 million was already appropriated into Community Block Development Grants earlier this year.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's pick to lead the state's environmental agency appears doomed in the state Senate, where Republicans on a key committee
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