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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 ...
Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, a member of the California Reparations Task Force, during a meeting to hear public input in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via ...
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.
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 ...
St. Paul's push to explore reparations for descendants of Black slaves and victims of discriminatory housing practices represents a newer type of push on the issue," Duluth News Tribune (April 15, 2022). Logan, Erin B. "L.A. creates advisory commission to study reparations pilot program for some Black Angelenos," Los Angeles Times (June 18, 2021).
The California Reparations Task Force was created in 2020 to study and develop policies — including cash reparations — for Black Californians, particularly those whose ancestors were stripped ...
In contrast, the task force on reparations for the state of California has proposed a sliding scale with a limit of $1.2 million for elderly Black individuals. The cash amount received a lot of attention, but it is mostly viewed as unachievable in a city with mounting fiscal challenges and a lack of political agreement on the subject. [13]