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The First Local Reparations Program in the U.S. Is Generations in the Making

In March 2021, the Evanston City Council approved what many are calling the world’s first municipal reparations plan. The money will go specifically to compensate people who were hurt by the city’s previous practice of redlining — or denying financial or other services to people who live in certain areas based on their race or ethnicity. The movement for reparations...
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Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), talks at the Capitol in Sacramento, California, June 10, 2020.
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Could Reparations for Slavery Be Paid in Education Rather than Checks? This California Assemblywoman Thinks So

Much of the controversy about reparations stems from no one being clear on what manner reparations would take.
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Slavery Reparations for Black Americans Are About More Than Just Money

Following a year of massive protests against systemic racism, the long-discussed possibility of slavery reparations for Black Americans is closer than ever to becoming reality. But how would that work, and what would it cost? As Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors told NBCLX’s Chase Cain, reparations are about more than just money.
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This image made from video from the Office of the Governor shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom signing into law a bill that establishes a task force to come up with recommendations on how to give reparations to Black Americans on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Sacramento, Calif. The law establishes a nine-member task force to come up with a plan for how the state could give reparations to Black Americans, what form those reparations might take and who would be eligible to receive them.
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California Signs Law to Study Reparations for Black Americans

The law creates a nine-member task force to come up with proposals for how the state could provide reparations to Black Americans
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One City has a Creative Idea for Funding a Proposal for Reparations – a Marijuana Tax

Officials in Evanston, Ill. are proposing sale tax from the sales of cannabis be used to fund a proposal for reparations.
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Dorothy Taylor Dorsey and Jean Dorsey, Descendants of the Georgetown University 272
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Long Time Coming: ‘Georgetown 272' Descendants Set to Become First Reparation Recipients

In 1838, Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to the state of Louisiana. The New York Times spoke with their descendants who are set to become the first recipients of reparations in the United States.
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