. “It is a monthly cash unrestricted program for reparation-eligible residents,” Rue Simmons says. “We’re really excited that we have our first opportunity to look at cash-benefit programming and get some outcomes and measurements from that program.”Evanston residents with $300 monthly payments over a 10-month period. The application for the program opened March 22 and closed on April 5. Rue Simmons says funds will start going out to residents later this month.
The city has established a dedicated group to develop a neighborhood school “working on reparations from an education position and looking at how our true story of Black history and African lineage will be included in our school curriculum.
This effort to bolster education and community engagement as part of the reparations program for the youths is personal for Rue Simmons. “I am a resident of the ward that I serve,” she says. “I was born and raised in the west end of the 5th Ward, the historic Black community, and I attended public schools here in Evanston, and I’ve been involved in community and civic work since I was a young girl through volunteerism and even student council.
Rue Simmons says another lesson she wishes other cities can glean from Evanston’s progress is “that there is a legislative path forward to repair injustice,” she says. “With the will and the heart to advance this type of policy, it is possible. And our hope is that other cities will see our first steps, and they will begin to take their first step in line with their own history and their community goals.
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