The 10 latest articles on State & City Reparations come from 10 sources, published between Oct 22 and Nov 12.
People in these stories: John F. Kness (2), Trump (2)
Organizations: Justice Department (3), Tufts University (2), Department of Justice (2), Judicial Watch (2), Associated Press (2)
Places: Evanston (5), Illinois (4), U.S. (3), Boston (2), United States (2), Chicago (2)
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons made history in 2020 for suing the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, its surrounding county, and military, for long overdue reparations surrounding the infamous 1921 Tulsa Massacre. The center of the massacre, the Greenwood District, was popularly known as “Black…
Skip to content Facebook Instagram SUBSCRIBE NOW History, News, Stories Boston Reparations Task Force mulls how to focus the project going forward Historians and an archeologist who have examined Boston’s history with slavery discussed possible paths forward after the city…
Kansas City's 2026 Racial Justice Summit meets Saturday at Intersect KC, featuring a reparations workshop ahead of a 2027 city report. Explore Our Cities & Metro Areas (A-Z) Kansas City Reparations Summit Saturday Tackles a Housing Wealth Gap Three Times Wide Kansas City…
SOUTH BEND, Ind — South Bend taxpayers have spent more than $30 million on neighborhood redevelopment tied to the city’s racial reparations effort. Mayor James Mueller says that spending is expected to double in 2026. The city has also invested nearly $60 million in…
Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Evanston, Illinois, reparations program due to its use of race as an eligibility requirement for the program. (Getty Images) FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Justice (DOJ) is pushing back after the city…
Daniel Greenfield writes for Front Page Magazine about the tax burden for a college town that pioneered racial reparations in the United States. In 2019, Evanston, Illinois, a Cook County city, announced it would provide $20 million in racial reparations to black…
When I was working on the question of reparations, I sent some of my thinking to my mentor, James Jennings, professor emeritus at Tufts University and a longtime scholar of race, housing, wealth and public policy. His response was a…
EVANSTON, Ill. — A national push to address the lasting damage of slavery and discriminatory housing is expanding even as the Justice Department joins a legal effort to dismantle the country’s first municipal reparations program. N’nanba “Robin Rue” Simmons, the former Evanston…
A pending rule confuses legal and moral authority. Will Baude and Stephen E. Sachs | 10.30.2020 8:32 AM Good intentions notwithstanding, this rule is wrong. It's legally misleading, morally misguided, and inconsistent with the goals of good scholarship. Journals should not impose it. The…
A federal judge has allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to join a lawsuit that seeks to halt and dismantle the City of Evanston’s historic reparations program, which awards grants to Black residents whose ancestors lived in Evanston during decades of…
Reparations programmes and commissions in states and cities: California, Evanston, Maryland, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Asheville and others; payments and lawsuits.
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