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Black residents to get reparations in Evanston, Illinois
A suburb of Chicago is to become the first city in the United States to pay reparations to black residents who have suffered housing discrimination.
The city council in Evanston, Illinois, voted 8-1 to distribute $25,000 (£18,000) each to 16 eligible black households to use for home repairs or as down payments on property.
- BBC
The funds come mostly from a new tax on legalised marijuana.
Black Americans were disadvantaged by racist housing decisions.
To be eligible, residents must be a black person who lived in Evanston between 1919 to 1969, or a descendant of such a…