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Hattie Thomas Whitehead in the courtyard of Creswell Hall on the University of Georgia campus, mere feet from where the shotgun house she was raised in once stood. Thomas Whitehead and others with connections to the Athens neighborhood of Linnentown have won a mind of reparations for the neighborhood's erasure.

Reparations For 'Terrorism,' 'White Supremacy' In Athens Mark A Georgia First

Former residents of the Athens neighborhood of Linnentown have won a kind of reparations for the erasure of the neighborhood in the urban renewal period.

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Evanston, Ill., just north of Chicago, is believed to be the first place in the United States to provide reparations to Black residents after its City Council on Monday approved a plan to address racial discrimination in housing.

In Likely First, Chicago Suburb Of Evanston Approves Reparations For Black Residents

The new program, which aims to address harms suffered by Black residents due to the city's past discriminatory housing policies, is part of a larger reparations fund established in 2019.

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  • Rachel Treisman
U.S. Capitol at night

Biden Backs Reparations Study, As Dems Push For Commission

The White House on Wednesday indicated that President Joe Biden would support studying reparations for slavery, the same day that House Democrats held a hearing on legislation that would set up a reparations commission.

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The City Council unanimously approved a resolution apologizing for the local government's historic role in slavery and for participating in racist and discriminatory policies that have led to oppression.

Asheville, N.C., Approves Steps Toward Reparations For Black Residents

"The blood capital that we have banked to spend today to fight for significant change came ... not from our allies but from Black men, women and children who died," said Councilman Keith Young.

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  • Vanessa Romo