The mayor announced the 10 members of the task force, which will be headed by attorney Joseph Feaster Jr., president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, and a current member of the city’s Black Men & Boys Commission.
and will soon issue a request for proposal for a research partner to assist with its mission.
"The task force will give us the chance to fully engage and challenge policies that have harmed and marginalized Black people in Boston for generations. I am eager to collaborate with the task force with the goal of repairing and restoring injustice to move our city forward," said Lori Nelson, the city's senior advisor on racial justice.
At Tuesday's event, Boston's Chief of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion Segun Idowu pointed out that what the task force finds and what Boston does has the potential to reverberate through the country. Lawmakers across the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations. Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in the state. California has also formed a commission to study the issue.
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