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Paying reparations to black residents could cost California over $800 billion, putting the state more than 2.5 times over its annual budget amount, according to economic analysts. In an effort to compensate black residents for generations of housing discrimination, overpolicing, and other racially motivated policies, California officials would need to allocate more than $800 billion […]
Video: Inside the first US city to award reparations to Black residents – CNN Video Stay Updated on Developing Stories View in App Live TV CNN’s Adrienne Broaddus takes us inside the first city in the United States to award reparations to Black residents.
United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin joined Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in announcing that on March 23, 2023, a Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to one felony count and one misdemeanor count of intimidating and interfering with Black residents because of their […]
In the United States, a landmark lawsuit filed in a federal court in Louisiana on Tuesday by residents of the state’s “Cancer Alley” declares an “environmental and public health emergency.” It calls for an end to any new heavy industry, including fossil fuel, petrochemical plants, and related infrastructure in St. James Parish. Members of Inclusive […]
A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to one felony count and one misdemeanor count of intimidating and interfering with Black residents because of their race and because they were exercising their right to fair housing. According to court documents, William McDonald, 45, of West Allis, Wisconsin, admitted that in March 2021, he vandalized a Black woman’s […]
In the United States, a landmark lawsuit filed in Louisiana federal court on Tuesday by residents of the state’s “Cancer Alley” declares an “environmental and public health emergency.” It calls for an end to any new heavy industry, including fossil fuel, petrochemical plants, and related infrastructure in St. James Parish. Members of Inclusive Louisiana, Mount […]
SAN FRANCISCO is proposing a landmark reparations fund for Black residents. Under the suggested plans, each eligible black resident would receive $5m (£4m), as part of a compensation reparations package for Black Americans – for decades of racial oppression from the city. The reparations plans, put forward by the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory […]
Residents in a Louisiana community, known as “Cancer Alley,” have filed a federal lawsuit against St. James Parish, calling decisions to put petrochemical plants in Black neighborhoods racist as they demand new plants be banned. Photo courtesy of Denka Performance Elastomer LLC March 21 (UPI) — Residents in a Louisiana community known as “Cancer Alley” […]
By Mike Wendling BBC News, Evanston 12 October 2022 Image source, Louis Weathers Image caption, When Louis Weathers and his wife were looking for a house in the 1950s, they were only shown property in the majority-black area of Evanston Evanston, Illinois, is a quiet place in the middle of an unusual experiment.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the reparations committee chairman Eric McDonnell said: “When you consider all of the ways in which the systems and practices have been managed to exclude and steal, if you will, the opportunities for financial mobility – families are hurting and have been for decades, if not longer. Source link