DalsnaFinance

Trump administration asks judge to halt first reparations program for Black people in US

Politics The Hill By Sophie Brams 17 Jun 2026 13:18 1 min read
Trump administration asks judge to halt first reparations program for Black people in US

The Justice Department is seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging a Chicago suburb’s housing reparations program for Black residents, arguing it is “racially discriminatory” and unconstitutional. The city council in Evanston, Ill., earmarked $10 million in revenue generated from cannabis sales taxes in 2019 for a first-of-its-kind local reparations program for Black residents...

The Justice Department is seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging a Chicago suburb’s housing reparations program for Black residents, arguing it is “racially discriminatory” and unconstitutional. The city council in Evanston, Ill., earmarked $10 million in revenue generated from cannabis sales taxes in 2019 for a first-of-its-kind local reparations program for Black residents...

Read the full story on The Hill → Opens the original article on thehill.com

Summary aggregated from The Hill's public RSS feed. The full reporting belongs to The Hill — please read it on their site.