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First-in-nation reparations program is unfair to residents who aren’t Black, lawsuit says

A lawsuit filed by a conservative activist group claims a Chicago suburb discriminated against residents who are not Black when it paid nearly $5 million in reparations to some Black residents in recent years as a part of an ongoing program. Evansto...

FactChecking Biden’s Promises ‘Kept’

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. President Joe Biden punctuated a campaign speech in Philadelphia with the phrase “a promise made and a promise kept,” when chronicling several actions his administration...

Critically acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce says he was denied Harlem apartment due to lack of steady employment

Evanston’s Groundbreaking Reparations Program Faces Class Action

Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program is now facing a legal challenge. The program is aimed at addressing housing discrimination and segregation that took place in the northern suburb from 1919 to 1969. Thanks to our sponsors: The city’s o...

Bail hearing highlights struggles for convicted minorities, addiction, and rehabilitation in Vermont

BENNINGTON — A routine bail hearing in the criminal case of a Londonderry man accused of eluding Manchester police and violating conditions of release came to represent a minority mom’s struggles with an addicted son, her hopes for rehabilitation wi...

Rise of far right makes reparations debate tough, says Cape Verde president

Cape Verde’s president, José Maria Neves, said the rise of rightwing populism has made it difficult to hold a serious debate about colonial reparations but argued that should not stop governments from having those conversations behind closed doors....

Rochester judge Meredith Vacca, nominated for federal bench, faces questions on past comments about racism in criminal justice system

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Monroe County Judge Meredith Vacca faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday as part of her confirmation process for a federal judgeship. If confirmed, Vacca would be the first Asian American wo...

Reparations scheme which pays $25,000 to black people sued for discrimination

America’s first reparations programme which hands out $25,000 (£19,500) to black citizens has been hit by a legal challenge for discriminating against white people. Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, was accused of a “brazen violation of the law” after...

This City is Paying Out Reparations to Black Folks…Guess Who’s Trying to Stop It

Three years ago, it was reported that the Evanston City Council voted to launch the first phase of a reparations program for Black residents in the Chicago suburb. William Stanford Davis on Season 3 of ‘Abbott Elementary’ Off En...

First U.S. city to offer Black residents reparations faces class-action lawsuit

In The News | June 05, 2024 From The Washington Times: The first U.S. city to offer reparations to Black residents now faces a federal class-action lawsuit alleging its program discriminates against non-Black residents in violatio...

Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program challenged by lawsuit from a conservative activist group

CNN — The nation’s first government program providing cash reparations to Black residents in response to past discriminatory housing practices is being challenged in court by Judicial Watch, a conserva...

German Holocaust reparations increase again this year, but plateau expected as survivors perish

The German government has agreed to allocate $1.5 billion in Holocaust reparations this year, setting a new record for how much the country is spending to support survivors. The increase from a total of $1.4 billion last year is due to a rise in th...

The Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity Endorses Elissa Slotkin for U.S. Senate

The Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, a cornerstone of Detroit’s faith community for over 50 years, announced its support for Elissa Slotkin’s U.S. Senate campaign. This endorsement from an influential body representing more t...

From ‘terrifying news’ of cancer diagnosis, Heat icon Alonzo Mourning offers message of hope, health, healing

MIAMI — “Again?” That, Alonzo Mourning said, was an immediate emotion of the moment, on Feb. 23 when informed that he had Stage 3 prostate cancer. Because for a mountain of a man, at 6 feet 10, 261 pounds, there he found himself, again cut down to si...

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary June 5, 2024

Leaders of the African nation of Namibia are calling for direct talks with Germany over reparations and the return of ancestral lands seized by white setters after the genocide committed against the Herero and Nama tribes in the early 1900s. Duri...