Campaigns for Reparations Are Gaining Steam Across the Country As H.R. 40 gathers dust in the U.S. Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota, becomes the latest city to join the national grassroots movement to make reparations to Black communities. Minnesota Historical Society From atop the stump of what was once one of many trees lining Rondoâs streets, a boy watches the bulldozers work the soil. Marvin Roger Anderson, now eighty-one years old, grew up in a development his father and three other railroad employees built in 1946. As a child, he painted and cleaned his neighborsâ townhomes when they moved out, planning to someday manage the property with his father.Â