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Trump administration asks judge to halt first reparations program for Black people in US

Race And Racism,Discrimination,US Constitution,Trump Agenda,Reparations,Chicago

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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 unconstitutional.

The city council in Evanston, Ill., earmarked $10 million in revenue generated from cannabis sales taxes in 2019 for a first-of-its-kind local reparations program for Black residents and their direct descendants who suffered housing discrimination due to the city's policies and practices between 1919 and 1969...

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