The Big Payback

Fear and Reparations in the American Suburb

Duration: 88 min
Release date: 2022-06-11
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Funded by a tax on cannabis, Evanston, IL, earmarked $10 million to compensate descendants of enslaved Africans for 400 years of unpaid labor. Alderwoman Simmons leads her constituents through this historic campaign for reparations for the Black c...

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