Evanston, Illinois, approves the country’s first reparations program for Black residents
By Skylar Mitchell and Suzanne Malveaux, CNN Officials in the Chicago suburb of Evanston voted Monday to release the first batch of funds in a program offering reparations to Black residents whose families have felt the effects of decades of discriminatory housing practices, according to the Chicago Tribune and Evanston Now. It is the first of its kind in the country. Alderman Robin Rue Simmons and the Evanston City Council developed plans to direct revenue from a 3% tax on legalized cannabis into assistance for home loans. “We had to do something radically different to address the racial divide that