EVANSTON, Ill. (WLS) -- Evanston is celebrating a major milestone in its reparations housing program: the city selected its first group of recipients Thursday morning. More than 600 people applied for ...

Wealth in America is undeniably divided along racial lines. Consider that the 2019 Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances found that white families on average are eight times wealthier than ...

It would “require identified cities and counties to submit all residential land use ordinances for review and approval by a state agency, with the agency rejecting (or requiring modification of) the ...

The first recipients of housing reparations in Evanston have selected how they want to use their up to $25,000 grant, city officials announced in a news release Monday, with the group choosing a mix ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- As a child, Robin Rue Simmons didn't know the Evanston neighborhood she called home was an area where Black families were once forced to live. Rue Simmons grew up just north of ...

With the ringing in of a new year, social justice advocates in New Jersey are wishing for a more just and equitable state in 2022. I spoke with several of the Garden State’s most vocal and passionate ...

Providence's reparations commission has begun unveiling a draft of the massive 11-point investment plan it will present to Mayor Jorge Elorza in a matter of days. In one of its final meetings on ...

Advocates at a city-funded reparations event Saturday urged Boston to suspend a program to build affordable housing on vacant lots in Dorchester and Roxbury that were once owned by Black families. The ...

As a child, Robin Rue Simmons didn’t know the Evanston neighborhood she called home was an area where Black families were once forced to live. Rue Simmons grew up just north of Chicago in Evanston’s ...

You’re reading Our View, one of two perspectives in Today’s Debate. For the Opposing View, read Race-based reparations would be a step backward. Wealth in America is undeniably divided along racial ...