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

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 ...

Meslar/Reuters) The Evanston, Ill., city council voted 8–1 on Monday to approve a first-of-its-kind initiative to distribute $400,000 to eligible black households as a form of reparations over ...

About 50 Evanston and Chicago community members chanted “Repair the damage” in unison at Norris University Center during the Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Public ...

Among the many readers who found the article thought-provoking were two Jews in Evanston, Illinois ... Denver and St Louis, have since pledged to pursue reparations programs, and in April ...

You will find the record of a congregation that has a wound at its center: in 1882, the Black members of First Baptist Church in Evanston, Illinois, left to form ... the nation’s first-of-its-kind ...

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 ...

Since the West Asheville church dissolved ... originally modeled after a similar fund piloted in Evanston, Illinois. It was incorporated in 2023 and clinched nonprofit status in September 2024 ...