The historically Black 5th Ward in Evanston, Illinois. The Chicago suburb launched the nation’s first housing-based reparations program in 2019.AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar by Sara Safransky, Vanderbilt University; Elsa Noterman, Queen Mary University of London, and Madeleine Lewis, Vanderbilt University Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 … Continued
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