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Reparations Around the Country: From Palm Springs to Evanston

FirstRepair — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 04:25:17 +0000

ABC7 News | November 10, 2023

A group of former and current Palm Springs residents are demanding reparations after they say the city forcibly evicted them and destroyed their homes nearly 60 years ago.

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YAHOO NEWS: How reparations pioneer Evanston, Ill., is rolling out payments to Black citizens

FirstRepair — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:49:22 +0000

The city started disbursing reparations payments to locals in 2022, in the form of vouchers for housing, and has since expanded them to include cash.

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Chicago Suburb Pays Reparations to Black Residents in a ‘Test Run for the Whole Country’

FirstRepair — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:58:54 +0000

The Chicago suburb is paying reparations to Black residents who experienced housing discrimination.

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YOUTUBE CHANNEL: FirstRepair’s First Quarter 2023 Recap

FirstRepair — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:04:47 +0000

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ABC 7 CHICAGO: Evanston City Council votes to expand reparations program to repair housing discrimination

FirstRepair — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 19:39:18 +0000

As a child, Robin Rue Simmons didn’t know the Evanston neighborhood she called home was an area where Black families were once forced to live.

Rue Simmons grew up just north of Chicago in Evanston’s 5th Ward, where banks refused to give mortgage loans to Black families until 1969.

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DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE: Reparations architect from Illinois to lead town hall in Amherst on Thursday

FirstRepair — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:50:09 +0000

A national leader who has pioneered municipal efforts to provide government-funded reparations to Black Americans will be in Amherst this week to support both the town’s ongoing work to address harms perpetuated against residents of African heritage and to engage with college students interested in pursuing similar initiatives.

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NORTH CAROLINA A&T: Alexander to Host ‘The Big Payback’ Discussion and Debate at North Carolina A&T University

FirstRepair — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 20:55:00 +0000

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) will host a conversation and student-led debate around reparations for Black Americans inspired by the PBS documentary, “The Big Payback.” The event, to be held Tuesday, March 21, at 5:30 p.m. in Harrison Auditorium, will feature “Living Single” actress Erika Alexander, co-director of the film.

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ESSENCE: How The “Big Payback” Brings Renewed Focused To The Fight For Reparations

FirstRepair — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:35:00 +0000

New PBS Documentary shows that Reparations are possible as it follows the efforts in Evanston, Illinois, the first U.S. city with a Reparations Bill for African Americans.

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FORBES: Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan, Steve Sisolak Among New Pritzker Fellows At University Of Chicago

FirstRepair — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:50:00 +0000

The Institute of Politics’ Pritzker Fellowship is a nonpartisan, extracurricular program that annually brings groups of prominent politicians, journalists and diplomats to the University of Chicago to conduct on-campus seminars on what it describes as “the most pressing issues of the day.” A complete list of fellows can be found here.

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ABC 7 News: “Reparations Symposium Held in Evanston on 3-Year Anniversary of Establishing Fund in Chicago Suburb

FirstRepair — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:35:48 +0000

Reparations activists from across the country are in Evanston for the 2nd Annual National Symposium for State and Local Reparations Leaders.

“We are delighted to see the momentum, the progress, the milestones,” said First Repair founder and executive director, Robin Rue Simmons.

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