Evanston, Illinois's reparations program has been hailed by other cities looking to implement something similar, but it has brought unintended, unfortunate consequences. dcexaminer took a look at the response to the program from the education sector.
Evanston, Illinois, has been referred to as the new epicenter of the civil rights movement when, in 2019, it became the first city in America to guarantee funding for reparations to black residents. The program has been hailed by other cities looking to implement something similar, but it has brought unintended, unfortunate consequences. In part three of this series, Reparations Nation, the Washington Examiner takes a look at the response from the education sector.
Simmons was instrumental in securing Evanston's place in history as the first U.S. city to guarantee funding for reparations. Evanston's decision to focus on housing and not slavery came after residents said housing policies of the Jim Crow era and redlining overwhelmingly hurt them and created a cycle of poverty that some are still stuck in.
"They had to live at the [YMCA] and other places because they were not welcome to live on Northwestern's campus," Simmons said."All forms of anti-blackness have happened there. We really should be looking [at] how they've come into land acquisition in black neighborhoods. Was that done in a fair and just way?"
Harvard isn't alone in its inward look. More than 95 universities across the country are studying their ties to slavery or trying to repair the harm it has caused. Northwestern told the Washington Examiner that it has taken steps to"researching its past and fostering community conversations about how to confront history, both the institution’s history and the nation’s."
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