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On January 13, St. Paul City Council unanimously voted to create a reparations commission. Formally titled the St. Paul Recovery Act Community Reparations Commission, Crews partnered with Councilmember Jane Prince, the resolution’s lead sponsor, to bring the act to the council. The immediate next step is establishing the commission over the next six months. “We want community economists and activists on the board and community members who are impacted by the racial wealth gap caused by slavery, white supremacy, and racist institutions,” Crews explains. Minnesota at large, and the Twin C...

St. Paul joins handful of cities moving towards reparations for descendants of slaves A resolution apologizes for the area's role in slavery and systemic racism and greenlights a commission to study reparations for descendants of slaves in St. Paul Author: City of St. Paul St. Paul has joined a handful of cities taking steps towards issuing reparations for descendants of slaves.  The City Council passed a resolution earlier this month to form a commission within the next six months to study how the process of issuing reparations might work. The resolution also outlined and apologized for th...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The movement for reparations for Black Americans has seen greater urgency since the police killing of George Floyd last year. ...

Copy shortlink: The city of St. Paul apologized for its role in institutional racism on Wednesday and agreed to form a new commission to study reparations for Black residents whose ancestors were enslaved. The City Council voted 7-0 to form the St. Paul Recovery Act Community Reparations Commission as a way to promote racial healing. The resolution creating the commission also apologizes for slavery at Fort Snelling and the destruction of St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood in the 1950s. Council Member Jane Prince, the resolution's lead sponsor on the council, partnered with...

In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement shook the world Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath © Demonstrators protest on June 6, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, over the death of George... Demonstrators protest on June 6, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis [File: Alex Brandon/AP Photo] Louisville, Kentucky – When mass protests erupted in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 28, one of Chanelle Helm’s biggest worries was for the young people who took to the streets. Anger had been buildin...