Illinois city hands out $25K cash payments to 44 Black residents through reparations program
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Evanston reparations program announced $25,000 payments to 44 Black residents as part of the nation's first municipal reparations plan.
Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Evanston was the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents. Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
The payments are intended to cover housing expenses, Evanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune. Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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