Evanston, Illinois became the first city in the United States to enact reparations to qualifying Black residents and descendants of residents. The program, funded by a tax on legalized marijuana, will distribute $25,000 to roughly 15 households in the city. The program aims to distribute $10 million over the course of the next decade.
“Evanston is really sort of an incremental step forward,” said National African American Reparations Commission convener Ron Daniels. “The big picture is…
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