Evanston’s reparations program is back in the national spotlight. The Big Payback will premier on PBS on Jan. 16, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The documentary follows Robin Rue Simmons […]
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Reparations Committee seeks more participation
The Reparations Committee, testing a new strategy, is carving out time in its monthly meeting for three residents to share the racial discrimination they have endured while living in Evanston. […]
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Reparations Town Hall focuses on the work in Evanston
The meeting Friday night at Evanston Township High School’s auditorium was billed as a town hall on reparations. But the event, part of a national symposium meeting here in Evanston, […]
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Reparations leaders demand Biden act on H.R. 40
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) in Evanston Friday for a national reparations symposium, demanded that President Joe Biden put H.R. 40 in place via executive order, to set up […]
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City’s reparations program touches the nation, world
Evanston is leading the way for the nation’s reparations movement. That’s why for the past two years the national reparations symposium has been held in Evanston. Thursday night, reparation leaders […]
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US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee speaking at Reparations Town Hall
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who is spearheading the reparations movement at the federal level, will be speaking here at the Reparations Town Hall this Friday as part of the […]
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A reparations program in search of a funding source
Evanston has a historic reparations program. Now it has only to find a funding source. Evanston City Council members balked at a request from the city’s Reparations Committee Nov. 14 for […]
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Reparations Committee cautiously moves forward on tapping real estate transfer tax funds
Conservative Supreme Court justices’ scrutiny of affirmative action led the city’s Reparations Committee to take measures to safeguard the Restorative Housing Program at Thursday morning’s virtual meeting.
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‘The Big Payback’: A dream come true
The Chicago Film Festival debut of The Big Payback brought Evanston to Chicago Saturday for a screening of the new documentary that captures Evanstonian Robin Rue Simmons’ journey toward making […]
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Town hall prompts questions on city’s reparations program
The city’s ground-breaking reparations program continues to prompt questions and comments from the community, as 38 queries flooded into the town hall hearing Saturday, Oct. 22. A panel of community […]