What Happened When Evanston Became America’s First City to Promise Reparations Bloomberg 11 hrs ago Susan Berfield and Jordyn Holman
(Bloomberg Businessweek) Lucious Sutton disconnected the water line, the gas line, and the sewer line for the home he’d built on Bauer Place on the northwestern edge of Evanston. He and his brothers removed the appliances and the furniture. They secured the windows. Then he watched as men he didn’t know maybe they worked for the city, maybe for a property developer jacked up the wooden house, set it onto a truck, and drove it a mile-and-a-half to the neighborhood the city had deemed more suitable for Black families. A sheriff stood by.
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By: Nicholas Kulish
She has no large foundation, headquarters or public website. That makes it easier to dispense money on her own terms and for others to prey on the vulnerable in her name. Danielle Churchill needed help. She was raising five children in Wollongong, on the Australian coast south of Sydney, and had to cover thousands of dollars in special therapy fees for her 10-year-old son, Lachlan, who has autism. She tried crowdfunding on the site GoFundMe, but raised a tiny fraction of what she had hoped for.
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Libraries across the United States closed because of the coronavirus, moving as many activities and services online as they could.Credit.Lyndon French for The New York Times
To the Editor:
In “Infrastructure Isn’t Really About Roads. It’s About the Society We Want” (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, April 26), Eric Klinenberg argues that strong public infrastructure places where communities can gather, learn from one another and grow after over a year of isolation is the key to our resurgence and renewal, just as it was during the New Deal.
We strongly agree, and cite public libraries as the ultimate example: trusted, welcoming community and civic spaces offering education and opportunity for all. These beloved neighborhood institutions and their free and irreplaceable services, classes and programs will be central to our recovery.