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The Black Reparations Co-Governance Task Force “will conduct a comprehensive study and examination of all policies that have harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to present day,” and ...
In August 2016, the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition that is tied to the Black Lives Matter movement, released a policy platform based around reparations. [21] The platform listed six demands, comprising 40 policy recommendations, and "seeks reparations for lasting harms caused to African-Americans of slavery and investment in education ...
Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) is an African American youth organization in the United States. [1] Its activities include community organizing, voter mobilization, and other social justice campaigns focused on black, feminist, and queer issues. [2] The national director is D'Atra "Dee Dee" Jackson. [3]
At the first National Reparations Convention in Chicago in 2001, a proposal by Howshua Amariel, a Chicago social activist, would require the federal government to make reparations to proven descendants of slaves. In addition, Amariel stated "For those blacks who wish to remain in America, they should receive reparations in the form of free ...
Evanston, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, became the first place in the nation to pass a reparations program in 2021, allocating $400,000 to fund a block of $25,000 housing grants.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley will reintroduce H.R. 40, federal legislation to study reparations for slavery, on Wednesday as the Trump administration leads a wide-scale rollback of diversity, equity and ...
The African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission in a commission created to determine whether or not the State of Illinois should award reparations to black people. [1] The commission can have up to 18 members, by law at least 3 members must be representatives of organizations that support reparations and at least 8 of the members must be ...
As talk of reparations ripples through the federal and local governments nationwide, Evanston, Ill., has become the first city in the U.S. to put money in the hands of Black residents affected by ...