The Washington, D.C., city council has approved a budget for next year that allocates $1.5 million to fund a reparations task force aimed at addressing slavery and historical racial injustices.
The legislation mandates the creation of a task force to develop reparations for Black residents who have been "directly wronged and traumatized by the ills of slavery, Jim Crow, and structural and institutional racism." Additionally, the bill requires the commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking to create a database of slavery-era records, including life insurance policies on enslaved persons.
