and dino robinson, founder and executive director of shorefront legacy center.hored a report by evidence and officials by city officials on city policies and practices affecting black residents from 1900 to 1960 and through the present day. we're going to begin with councilmember robin rue simms. can you talk about what you have just passed and the significance of it? >> absolutely. thank you for having us. what we passed actually s in 2019, resolution to provide reparations to black evansn residents. we passed with funding from our cannabis sales tax with initial commitment of $10 million. but we passed on last monday was the first disbursement or the first remedy, which is going to be in the form of a housing remedy, $25,0 direct benefit to eligible like residents for home equity, home wealth acquisition or purchase, any type of improvement but something that will build wealth through home equity. i have to say in 2002 under the leadershipw of a judge was the second ward alderman at the time, our city passed a resolution can support five hr 40. we have been wo

. >> reporter: dino robinson is the founder of sure front, an archive dead dated to chronicling and celebratingin evanston, a richness long undervalued. his documentation going back to the late 1800s, invaluable in measuring the cost of racism and the need for reparations. >> black community members were moving throughout evanston and forming pockets in the city of evanson. the white community started p pack packicing, what do we do about this? >> the response, redlining, a federally sanctioned project, assigning market value to neighborhoods, a grading system. a to d. >> the "d" areas were relegated to the black community. the area "d" was always in red. >> reporter: this deliberately pushed evanston's black families into an area that became the fifth ward, segregating them from white families, sought-after property, and ultimately, wealth. >> things in evanston -- banks would not loan to black families, real estate agencies would not show you anything other than the fifth ward. >> that map is the map of our c black community. >> reporter: today white residents in evanston have nearly doubled