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Chicago Neighborhood Testing Out Reparations For Black Residents

Chicago Neighborhood Testing Out Reparations For Black Residents

A Chicago neighborhood is testing out a reparations program for Black residents who resided in the area during the city’s harsh era of racial discrimination.  The suburb known as Evanston, which has roughly 78,100 residents, has shelled out money to 16 residents who lived in the region between 1919 and …

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Gov. Newsom Declines to Endorse California Task Force’s Reparations Check Proposal, Says Its “About Much More Than Cash Payments”

Chicago Neighborhood Testing Out Reparations For Black Residents

Governor Gavin Newsom has rejected the reparations task force’s recommendation that black residents receive up to $1.2 million in cash. On Tuesday, Newsom told Fox News Digital that reparations, which are designed to atone for the country’s history of slavery and institutional racism, are “about much more than cash payments.” …

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Cost of Reparations for Black Californians Could Exceed $800 billion

Writers Strike Is Reportedly Costing California's Economy $30 Million A Day

Economists say it could cost California $800 billion in reparations to compensate Black residents who have faced generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration, and housing discrimination. A preliminary estimate of the costs would exceed California’s $300 billion annual budget. It doesn’t include the $1 million recommended for health disparities that have …

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San Francisco Reparations Committee Proposes That Each Black Longterm Resident Receive $5M and Debt Forgiveness

Chicago Neighborhood Testing Out Reparations For Black Residents

A reparations committee in San Francisco proposes paying each longtime Black resident $5 million and debt forgiveness after decades of “systematic repression.” Last month, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released its draft report on reparations – not for slavery, since California was not a slave state but …

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People Are Coming Together to Build Reparation Funds for Black People; Critics Say it’s the Government’s Job to Provide a Reparations Plan

Florida Girl Steals $13,500 From Grandmother’s Safe, Hands It Out To Classmates At School

White people are sending Black people money as “reparations.” A Louisville organization called Reparations Roundtable and other groups alike use social media to crowdfund money and distribute it to Black people as reparations. They say their mission is to help Black people financially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic …

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California Giving Reparations To Victims Of Forced Sterilization

California Releases Reparations Report Showing Harms of Slavery and Systemic Discrimination on African Americans

California is set to pay reparations to the victims of eugenics, which is a practice that determined that certain people, including those with mental illness or disabilities, shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce due to “undesirable traits.” Once approved, the state will give about $25,000 to the survivors who experienced sterilization, as …

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