A Chicago area city has become the first city in the U.S. to offer reparations to Black Americans, according to ABC News. Eligible Black residents of Evanston, Illinois will receive $25,000 starting this spring from a $10 million fund that will be distributed over the next ten years. The program is funded by a three percent tax on newly legal recreational marijuana sales, per ABC News. The payments will be used for housing and will address disparities that “are rooted in historic and anti-Black policies that were specifically enforced by the city of Evanston,” Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, who represents […]
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