PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is poised to study whether it’s able to pay reparations to Black Americans.
City Council members Jamie Gauthier and Kendra Brooks want to create a task force to study the topic, and introduced a resolution Thursday in Council to do so. The task force will be responsible for developing proposals about reparations for Black Philadelphian descendants of enslaved Africans.
“It is crystal clear that many of the crises plaguing our city have their roots in American slavery,” Gauthier said Thursday. “Reparations are not a handout, they’re what the descendants of enslaved Africans are owed and need.”
