The District is likely to join localities nationwide in searching for concrete ways to reckon with slavery’s generational harm.
A commission to study reparations for Black Washingtonians descended from enslaved people or affected by Jim Crow-era institutional racism is
said the $1.5 million in “pre-funding” ensures that the nine-member reparations task force could hit the ground running if and when the council advances his bill. He said he is expecting to mark up his legislation, the Reparations Foundation Fund and Task Force Establishment Act, in the fall; nine council members co-sponsored the legislation, making passage likely if it gets a vote.“It is definitely gratifying to get to this point. But it’s not over yet,” McDuffie said.
“It’s a really important time to be looking at this,” Sulton said. “It’s related to a lot of things people are looking at nationally in terms of the importance of understanding Black history and culture and the mistakes of the past, and it’s really a giant step forward that the council has said, ‘This is important.'”
by a conservative advocacy group that opposes the race-based program, which was expanded to include an option for $25,000 cash payments.McDuffie said he expects impassioned debate in the fall about how D.C. should proceed with its reparations
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