EVANSTON’S GREAT EXPERIMENT.

The article offers information on Evanston, Illinois's ascendancy as the first municipality in the U.S. to implement reparations for racial discrimination. It highlights how the Evanston municipality is rolling out a reparations program compensating Black residents for housing discrimination that locked them into segregated neighborhoods and denied families a fair chance to build generational wealth. It presents the views of Robin Rue Simmons, the Evanston native on the systemic racism.