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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe U.S. Justice Department claimed in a \u200bstatement that the program was discriminatory by distributing “cash payments and financial assistance for housing solely to Black persons, and their descendants, and not to similarly situated persons of other races.”
Local officials \u200band civil rights advocates say such reparations aim to address the legacy \u200bof racism and policies that targeted Black Americans, resulting in generational inequity.
The Justice Department said it \u200cwas moving \u2060to intervene, opens new tab in a lawsuit that challenged the program, opens new tab.
In a statement to the news website, Evanston Now, a city spokesperson said the city “maintains its position on the legality of the Evanston Reparation Program” and declined to comment on active litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We \u200bstand behind our \u200bfirst-in-the-nation reparations program, \u2060are confident in its constitutionality, and look forward to defending it in court,” Mayor Daniel Biss told Evanston Now.
U.S. President Donald \u200bTrump has taken several steps and made several comments that have \u200bsparked outrage \u2060from civil rights advocates who say such actions reverse decades of social progress and undermine efforts to acknowledge America’s history.
He has targeted cultural and historical institutions, from \u2060museums \u200bto monuments to national parks, to remove what \u200bhe calls “anti-American” ideology.
Trump’s declarations and executive orders have led to the dismantling of slavery exhibits and the \u200brestoration of Confederate statues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was moving to challenge a reparations program for Black residents in the Chicago suburb \u200bof Evanston, while the city’s mayor defended the program.Evanston had offered reparation \u200cmoney to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices. It marked the first such step by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1977,2057,2514],"class_list":["post-16409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-black","tag-city","tag-program"],"yoast_head":"\n