Why Reparations Must Be A Priority Issue in the NYC Mayoral Election - City Limits

Why Reparations Must Be A Priority Issue in the NYC Mayoral Election - City Limits

“Will the next mayor treat reparations as the moral and economic necessity that it is, or let this moment pass, despite the will of the people?” Racial equity legislation on the mayor’s desk at City Hall in 2020. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) In Tulsa, Oklahoma, something historic happened this spring. The city’s mayor, Monroe Nichols, unveiled a bold $105 million plan for reparations to the survivors and descendants of the 1921 …