One core challenge for Evanston’s reparations program is determining eligibility. Who, exactly, counts as sufficiently Black ...

On June 16, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to intervene in a federal lawsuit over Evanston, Illinois’ housing reparations program, a step with potential policy implications. Federal attorneys ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Kenneth Wideman, 80, learned in 2023 he would be one of the first recipients of a $25,000 reparations payment from the city ...

Evanston’s reparations are not a story of granting arbitrary preferences, but a story of a city confronting its own history ...

The Evanston Reparations Committee met Thursday, responding to the federal government’s move to join a lawsuit challenging the city’s reparations program. Approved in 2019, the city’s Restorative ...

The Justice Department is seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging a Chicago suburb’s housing reparations program for Black residents, arguing it is “racially discriminatory” and ...

Even as politicians work to reenact Jim Crow-era silences about how white supremacy has shaped America, reparations are on the table as they have never been before. After an upswell of grassroots ...

FILE - People walk through the downtown district, Jan. 15, 2021, in Amherst, Mass. Officials will consider a plan that calls for spending reparations funds for Black residents on youth programs, ...

From left, State Sen. Steven Bradford, Secretary of State Shirley Weber, task force member Lisa Holder and Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer hold up a final report of the California Task Force to ...

Reclamation Day in Brooklyn featured “We Kept the Receipts,” a reparations installation tied to H.R. 40. Learn how it ...

The Chicago Department of Family and Support Service’s community support center at 10 S. Kedzie is one of a handful of locations operated by the city as a warming and cooling center during extreme ...