The US town being sued for racism by its white people… because it’s paying its black residents $25,000 each for the legacy of slavery
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 16, 2024
The chirp of cicadas in the tree-lined streets of Evanston is almost deafening. Billions of the insects have been making their periodic emergence from underground dormancy, on a scale not seen for centuries. With the ground strewn with dead bugs, and gardeners rushing to put protective netting around their plants and trees, locals have dubbed it ‘The Cicada-geddon’.
And yet this quiet university town – an affluent suburb of 
