The Department of Justice has claimed that a first-in-the-nation reparations program for Black residents amounts to illegal race-based discrimination because it doesn’t help people who aren’t Black.
The Justice Department is asking to join a lawsuit that seeks to block a program from the city of Evanston, Illinois, which has made $25,000 payments to residents who were at least 18 years old between 1919 and 1969, as well as “direct descendants” of Black people who lived in the city in that time frame.
