Federal Government Seeks to Halt the First U.S. Reparations Program for Black People
The department says the $25,000 housing aid program unlawfully uses race and ancestry, and city officials say more than $5 million has been distributed.
- The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a lawsuit challenging Evanston's reparations program for Black residents, arguing it violates the Constitution and federal housing law.
- The program provides benefits to Black individuals who lived in Evanston during a certain period and their descendants, which federal officials contend unlawfully distributes public benefits based on race and ancestry.
- The Justice Department alleges the program violates the Equal Protection Clause by providing benefits based on race and ancestry, and that the housing assistance component violates the Fair Housing Act.
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Get Up! Mornings With Erica CampbellTrump Administration Claims Illinois’ Anti-Black Housing Discrimination Reparations Program Is Racist
Source: Scott Olson / Getty Because it’s a day of the week that ends with “Y,” the Trump administration is, once again, proving itself to be a white supremacist organization that is dedicated to turning any effort to correct systemic racism against Black people into imaginary systemic racism against white people. In 2024, we reported on a group of white and fragile right-wingers who filed a lawsuit against the city of Evanston, Illinois, over th…
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Fox NewsTrump admin wants to stop Illinois city's reparations effort for 'simply handing out money based on race'
DOJ Civil Rights Division contends Evanston's reparations program violates the Equal Protection Clause by distributing $25,000 housing grants based solely on race.
Feds joining war against city’s $25,000 payments to ‘blacks only’ * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Source link The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to join a legal war by government watchdog Judicial Watch against an Illinois city’s scheme to hand out $25,000 in tax money to black people only. The plan adopted by city officials in Evanston, Illinois, purportedly would offer “reparations” to blacks in the town. Besides the requirement
'Racial Discrimination, Pure and Simple': Trump Administration Challenges Reparations Plan in Illinois
The Trump administration has struck another blow against DEI, this time issuing a lawsuit against a “first of its kind” racial reparations program in Illinois. In 2019, the city of Evanston, Illinois, approved a “Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program” that was set to hand out tens of millions of dollars to residents—or the descendants of residents—who had allegedly been discriminated against. What’s notable, and suable, about the Evansto…
DOJ seeks to block reparations to Black people whose ancestors suffered housing discrimination
The Justice Department is suing Evanston, Illinois, to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations program that has handed out more than $5 million to Black residents who said they were hurt by housing discrimination.
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