Mayor Michelle Wu today announced the ten individuals that will serve on the newly formed Reparations Task Force, created to study the lasting impact of slavery
Two high school students, Damani Williams and Denilson Fanfan, as well as University of Massachusetts student Carrie Mays, 22, will serve on Boston s reparations task force.
Mayor Wu has named ten people to serve on the city’s new Reparations Task Force, a group with a focus on studying the lasting impacts of slavery in Boston. Wu assembled the task force to include a variety of leaders in academia, education, organizing to “encompass the Black experience in Boston,” according to a Tuesday press release from her office. The task force’s creation