Evanston became the first city in the United States to pass a reparations resolution in 2019. Initially, the grants were restricted to mortgage assistance, renovations or a down payment on a home. The city council is considering adopting a cash option.
As a child, Robin Rue Simmons didn’t know the Evanston neighborhood she called home was an area where Black families were once forced to live. Rue Simmons grew up just north of Chicago in Evanston’s 5th Ward, where banks refused to give mortgage loans to Black families until 1969. In Evanston, Black people were restricted to a certain portion of the 5th Ward and excluded from other parts of the city.
“We have stalled because of complications,” Rue Simmons said. “It has taken longer than we expected. And some of those challenges have been really underestimating, operationally, the work.” From Asheville, North Carolina, to Detroit, Michigan, cities across the country are trying to repair harms caused by institutional racism. In San Francisco, a reparations committee is seeking payments proposed of $5 million to every eligible Black resident.
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