The St. Louis Reparations Commission is working on a draft of the final harm report

The St. Louis Reparations Commission is focusing on drafting its proposed 100-page harm report over the next few months. Three commission members will work through each section of the report along with about 20 historians and experts. The report will include an executive summary that ties into the recommendations from the commission that will help shape a sizable amount of the report. The six harm areas will include housing, neighborhoods and the built environment, education, public health, jobs and the economy, and state violence and policing. Dr. Will Ross, David Cunningham and Kayla Reed will work on two sections of the report apiece. “It really is our priority to be contributing and drafting a report that responds to the realities that our families and communities have faced over the decades in St. Louis,” said Reed during the monthly meeting. Reed will lead the housing and neighborhoods and the built environment section. She invited Walter Johnson, author and Harvard University professor, and Goeff Ward and Patti Hayden, who are both professors at Washington University, to work through the neighborhoods and built environment section. This working group met once and will continue to share and write about episodic moments and times of...