and very hyper locally in evanston, my consensus that you mention, we started with housing.for all forms of repair. housing grants. cash payments. business grants. access to education and health care and so on. but through our community process, are reparations committee was formed, and released its first -- which was a 20,000 dollar housing benefit that will build wealth for families in evanston they have been harmed by discriminating practices in our black community. >> just out of curiosity, what was the pushback? was it intense? was it not? what does the success, ben and how do you measure success? >> well, i will tell you. and our city we are progressive. and there was not an initial pushback. there was caution on making sure that it is legal. that it is constitutional. that it is viable. but our consensus on moving forward with reparations, for the most part, the challenge has come in, how do we prioritize what form of repair? we started with housing. some i want to have a different form of reparations. and now, even outside of our community, conservative groups have t

hence the evanston connection. um, my publisher is chicago press in chicago. um, but you know, what far as like contemporary brewers in chicago one of the women. i actually can't think of any stories about brewing women in chicago, but there is a woman who should have been in the book and like we said couldn't i wasn't space for her. her name is avery um, and she do, you know avery libby she was a brewer at jester king in austin, texas for a long time. and that's a killer brewery. and so when she moved up to chicago to her own thing she she really has has garnered a lot of attention for herself. and right now i'm only saying her first name because of course i'm blanking on her last name. but um, yeah if you're interested just type in avery brewer chicago and she'll come up i do plan to do an event at temperance brewing in evanston. probably this spring so definitely some chicago ties. maybe not exactly the answers you were asking about but um, yeah a lot of the history temperance is centered around that area. no was it was interesting to hear about the tempera

so, in evanston, we started with housing, because our harm is specifically in anti black zoning lawsrom here. the fight for h.r.40 is still going on. i know you do this work full-time. there's a headline here -- there's a coalition called, why we can't wait. it's urging the president to use executive authority to start a reparations study. it's a coalition -- it's a human rights and racial justice coalition that sent this letter to biden, asking him to issue this executive order to train a commission to study reparations nationally. just from having gone through this fight, what do you think it will take to move the fight forward, to move each are 40 out of committee and into passage? out of>> we stand in solidarityh that group. many of us have the same expectations of president biden at this point. we need to take action. they are now over 100 localities that have some sort of local reparations initiative. and congress and our president should be hearing from these cities and states, all across this nation, that are calling for reparations. we are standing hopeful that he will do th

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. >> reporter: in 2019 evanston, illinois, was the first for reparations.towards mortgages or repair homes. how long have you been wanting to get this roof fixed? >> it's been a while. >> reporter: robin ruth simmons championed reparations. she runs first repair. >> for people who don't understand why black americans should receive compensation or restitution, what do you say to that? >> the united states has harmed the black community for 403 years. eras of terror and harms so repair is necessary. equity has not been enough. >> reporter: economist says without change this will get higher. >> black americans are at the bottom and as a group have not shared equally in the gains in the economy in the past 30 or 40 years. >> reporter: are these your new windows here? >> yes, that's a new one. that's a new one. >> reporter: burton used some of her grant money to repair the windows. >> it's kind of a way of an apology or admittance we've been wronged in the past. it doesn't wipe away what my ancestors had to go through but it doesn't hurt. >> reporter: an attemp

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