CHICAGO — Nearly six months after a nonprofit group filed a lawsuit against the city of Evanston to try to halt its ...

The first Reparations Committee of the year honored three community members in recognition of Black History Month. Elisa Walker, Vanessa ...

Kendi Departs for Howard Community historian Morris “Dino” Robinson, who helped shape Evanston’s reparations initiative, points to the borders of the Fifth Ward, which was the area of ...

A measure introduced in Springfield would require corporations seeking to do business in Illinois to pay reparations if the ...

A new bill is looking to change the way Illinois handles state contracts. Under the new legislation, any organization ...

And I tell them I’m from Evanston, Illinois,” he said ... and education-based initiatives. Since the end of the Civil War, calls for some form of reparations for slavery have continued ...

CHICAGO - The State of Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC) announces the fourth stop on its nine-part series of statewide ...

Some reparations advocates strategizing on how to protect their programs from legal threats, which they say are inevitable in ...

The first-of-its-kind reparations ... in Evanston in that timeframe. "That could be one day or that could be all 50 years," Bekesha said. Judicial Watch's own press release on the suit contained more ...

Monroe Nichols supports “significant elements” of the measure to recompense the families of Black people killed or left homeless by the 1921 race massacre.

Tuesday, in the state capitol, a coalition of Black representatives and organizations combined forces in support of a ...