Reparations for Black Residents Are Becoming a Local Issue as Well as a National One
The New York Times
While legislation in Washington remains stalled, state and local governments are breathing new life into the reparations movement.
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The city of Detroit took everything from Keith E. Williams and his family. He now wants it back.
Right before he was born, Mr. Williams’s parents and older siblings left Black Bottom, a once vibrant and predominately Black neighborhood in Detroit, when city officials demolished the area as part of what was billed as a large-scale urban renewal project in the 1950s. The land is now a major freeway, I-375, and the location of the largely white, and affluent, Lafayette Park neighborhood.
