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Evanston, Illinois<\/a> will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City\u2019s Reparations Committee has announced.<\/p>\n

Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between the years 1919 and 1969.<\/p>\n

Evanston was the first city in the nation to\u00a0pass a reparations plan<\/u><\/a>, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents. The payments are intended to cover housing<\/a> expenses, Eanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO SUED OVER REPARATIONS FUND ALLEGING UNLAWFUL USE OF TAXPAYER MONEY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Tasheik Kerr, assistant to the city manager, said during the meeting<\/a> last week that the residents will be contacted to know their payment is on the way over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

According to a city memo, the fund had received $276,588 from Evanston\u2019s real estate transfer tax. The committee discussed taxing Delta-8 THC products to sustain funding in the future.<\/p>\n

Ald. Krissie Harris recognized that the tax would not significantly increase revenue, though it would “help keep moving that number forward” in the reparations process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON TAKES JAB AT CLARENCE THOMAS WHILE DEFENDING CITY’S REPARATIONS TASK FORCE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s really important for people to understand we pay as we have the money, and it\u2019s not that we\u2019re withholding from paying everyone,” Harris said, according to The Daily Northwestern<\/a>. \u00a0She continued, “It\u2019s just we have to accumulate the funds to make sure we can pay.”<\/p>\n

As the reparations fund did not receive any philanthropic donations this year as of Jan. 31,\u00a0the fund is primarily supported by cannabis sales tax and real estate tax money.<\/p>\n

MARYLAND CHURCH TO ISSUE REPARATIONS GRANTS TO ‘BUILD UP BLACK COMMUNITIES’ DUE TO \u2018SYSTEMIC RACISM’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Evanston<\/u><\/a>‘s reparations program last year, due to its use of race as an eligibility requirement for the program. The watchdog group alleges that the program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“To date, Evanston has awarded over $6,350,000 to 254 individuals based on their race. The city must be stopped before it spends even more money on this clearly discriminatory and unconstitutional reparations program,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton at the time.<\/p>\n

Similar calls for reparations<\/a> have been gaining traction in the United States, as measures are being introduced in state legislatures and being pushed by grassroots activists. Municipalities and states recently launched exploratory efforts on the matter, forming committees to examine the impact of slavery in order to calculate how compensation would be dispensed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The committee did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital<\/a>‘s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/evanston-reparations-committee-issue-25k-44-residents <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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