How the long fight for slavery reparations is slowly being won | News | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/06/long-fight-for-slavery-reparations-evanston-chicago
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p8641nqsfwdvr77/capture%20d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran%202020-10-06%20%C3%A0%2009.12.01.png?dl=0 
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/d924igvd06gzxll/capture%20d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran%202020-10-06%20%C3%A0%2009.25.00.png?dl=0 It began with an email. On an especially cold day in Evanston, Illinois, in February 2019, Robin Rue Simmons, 43 years old and two years into her first term as alderman for the city’s historically Black 5th ward, sent an email whose effects would eventually make US history. The message to the nine-member equity and empowerment commission of the Evanston city council started with a disarmingly matter-of-fact heading: “Because ‘reparations’ makes people uncomfortable.”
She continued:
Hello Equity Commission,
thank you for the work you are doing. You have the most difficult work of all the commissions because the goal seems impossible … I realize that no 1 policy or proclamation can repair the damage done to Black families in this 400th year of African American resilience. I’d like to pursue policy and actions as radical as the radical policies that got us to this point.
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