Reparation Nation: The country's first reparations program for black Americans

In 2021, Evanston became the first city in America to approve a plan to make reparations available to black residents. $25,000 to help with a down payment on a house, mortgage, or home repairs. The decision to focus on housing, and not slavery, came after residents said housing policies of the Jim Crow era and redlining overwhelmingly hurt them and created a vicious cycle of poverty to hold them down. Read more on this story here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/reparations-illinois-architect-robin-rue-simmons-profile https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/reparations-illinois-unintended-consequences-death-identity-theft Check out our website: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/