Boston Moves Toward Paying Reparations to Black Community

Plans to pay taxpayer-funded reparations to Boston’s black community are moving forward as Mayor Michelle Wu appointed an all-black committee to the Boston Reparations Task Force. The group includes a former judge, a managing director of a local law school, a Mellon associate professor at nearby Tufts University, a government-paid historian, and an attorney for the Boston chapter of the NAACP. It also includes a University of Massachusetts student and two Boston public high school students. The first task is to compile a portfolio on the history of slavery to educate the public on the need to pay reparations to Boston’s black community, the mayor said....