A reparations plan for Black residents faces its first legal test in Chicago suburb

ACS Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice Taonga Leslie spoke to Prism Reports about a reparations plan in the city of Evanston, Illinois that is the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging that the program itself is racially discriminatory. Regarding past examples of reparations, Leslie explains:

“Congress had found that the U.S. government had a policy of interning Japanese Americans because of their race,” Leslie explained, “so it was perfectly in line with the Equal Protection Clause for [the U.S.] to make amends by paying them back reparations.”