Dino Robinson Jr., founder of the Shorefront Legacy Center, presented a report of Evanston’s past policies and practices at a reparations subcommittee Friday. Members of the subcommittee said understanding...

Evanston’s reparations subcommittee discussed a Home Buyer Assistance Benefit Program Friday, an initiative that works to remedy past discriminatory housing practices. The program aims to expand Evanston’s...

Maria Murray was 15 years old in 1855 when she was purchased out of slavery by a white family and brought to work as an indentured servant in their Evanston home. She was one of Evanston’s first black...

Just over 100 participants gathered through Zoom on Thursday for a virtual town hall on Evanston’s historic reparations fund. The fund, established through a city resolution passed in November 2019,...

Evanston officials considered a program that would encourage black homeownership at a Friday reparations subcommittee meeting. Still in its initial stages of development, the program would provide $10,000...