Headline Roundup • July 12th, 2023
Evanston, Illinois Starts Reparations to Black Residents
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois has become the first city in the nation to pay reparations to black residents.
Key Details: To qualify, black residents must have resided in Evanston between 1919 and 1969 or be a direct descendant of someone who did. The Evanston Local Reparations Committee will pay $10 million to residents over alleged discrimination and limited access to housing in the 1900s. Each of the roughly 140 residents will receive $25,000 by the end of 2023.
Key Quote: “I see it as like a test run for the whole country,” said Justin Hansford, head of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University.
For Context: The reparations package was approved in March of 2021, and sixteen qualified residents in Evanston have already received their payments. The payments are provided in vouchers or cash, and are supposed to come from marijuana and real estate transfer taxes.
How the Media Covered it: No left-rated outlets had covered the start of the program as of this writing.
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A Chicago suburb has become the first city in the nation to begin disbursing reparations payments to black residents over discrimination and limited access to housing, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Approximately 140 residents in Evanston, Illinois, will receive $25,000 from the city by the end of the year, according to the outlet.
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In 2019, the city of roughly 75,000 residents approved...
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Louis Weathers still remembers one of his first experiences with racial prejudice in this Chicago suburb along Lake Michigan, home of Northwestern University.
At his integrated junior high school, a white teacher didn’t want Black students such as Weathers showing up their white classmates with the right answers to questions, he recalled.
“Every time we raised our hand, she wouldn’t call on us, but when we didn’t raise our hands, she would—to make you look like a dummy,” Weathers said. “We got onto that, though. When we didn’t know the...
Associated Press
A suburb of Chicago has become the first to start paying reparations to qualifying black residents in what is being seen as “a test run for the whole country.”
The city of Evanston has already paid 16 locals from a $10 million package first approved in 2019, the Evanston RoundTable said Monday.
By the end of the year, the reparations committee expects to have paid $25,000 each to 140 qualifying residents in the city of about 75,000, officials also told the Wall Street Journal.
“I see it as like a test run for the whole country,”...
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