As Trump Fights over What America Owes, Slavery Descendants Organize for the Future
Robin Rue Simmons is expanding Evanston’s housing grant model to more than 100 communities as the Justice Department challenges race-based reparations programs.
- This month, the Justice Department received federal judge's permission to intervene in an Evanston lawsuit, alleging the city's actions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fair Housing Act.
- Robin Rue Simmons, chairman of Evanston's Reparations Committee and former city councilwoman, established a program providing $25,000 housing grants to Black residents harmed by discriminatory policies.
- Michael Bekesha, representing plaintiffs, told The Associated Press the program distributes funds based on race without specific harm identification, arguing "The Constitution prohibits governments from picking winners and losers based entirely on race."
- Following the Trump administration's anti-DEI orders last year, Harvard University fired its entire team identifying descendants of enslaved people, causing reparations efforts across higher education to stall.
- As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the Trump administration's efforts to curtail federal support for race-based initiatives create uncertainty, even as advocates maintain federal redress as a long-term goal.
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As Trump fights over what America owes, slavery descendants organize for the future – WTOP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — N’nanba (Robin Rue Simmons) has spent years trying to answer a question that has vexed the United States since the abolition of slavery: What would it actually look like to repair the damage? In Evanston, Illinois, she helped turn that question into a $25,000 housing grant for Black residents whose families were...
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As Trump fights over what America owes, slavery descendants organize for the future
WASHINGTON (AP) — N’nanba (Robin Rue Simmons) has spent years trying to answer a question that has vexed the United States since the abolition of slavery: What would it actually
As Trump fights over what America owes, slavery descendants organize f
WASHINGTON (AP) — N’nanba (Robin Rue Simmons) has spent years trying to answer a question that has vexed the United States since the abolition of slavery: What would it actually look like to repair the damage? In
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