DOJ Wants To Block Illinois City's Program That Gives $25,000 Payments to Black Residents Only

Trump DOJ moves to crush Evanston’s landmark Black reparations program

The Justice Department is backing a right-wing lawsuit against the nation’s first operating reparations program, raising the stakes for cities trying to repair decades of anti-Black housing discrimination.

DOJ Wants To Block Illinois City's Program That Gives $25,000 Payments to Black Residents Only

The US Department of Justice has moved to intervene in a legal challenge against Evanston, Illinois' reparations programme, which provides up to $25,000 (£18,400) in financial assistance to eligible Black residents and descendants of former Black residents. The DOJ argues the programme violates federal civil rights protections, while Evanston officials have defended the initiative as an effort to address the impact of historic discrimination. Fo…

As Trump administration challenges reparations in Evanston, Ann Arbor not deterred

ANN ARBOR, MI — As Ann Arbor explores the possibility of a reparations program for historical injustices and discrimination against Black residents, the Trump administration is challenging the first U.S. city to roll out such a program.

Trump admin wants to stop Evanston’s reparations effort for ‘simply handing out money based on race’ – FOX News

"There are sound ways for a city to remedy past discrimination or direct resources to its most vulnerable citizens and neighborhoods," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division stated in the filing. "Simply handing out money based on race, however, is not the answer. It is race discrimination, pure and simple. And it is illegal."

Biss defends reparations amid DOJ challenge

Says program “repairs the harm that we caused.”