Early Recommendations to the Boston Reparations Task Force

Inthe late winter, this year, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced the membership of the city’s<a href="https://www.boston.gov/equity-and-inclusion/task-force-reparations" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> Reparations Task Force</a>. The rollout punctuated nearly 4 years of grassroots activism that called upon the city to account for its complicity in the transatlantic slave trade where Africans and Black Americans were sold in Boston as human chattel, exploited of their labor and victimized through centuries of structural racism. “I recognize that there were persons who have come from other countries who are here…What the reality is, the devastation and the insidiousness that was rendered upon Black people is well documented from the slave trade,” said Attorney <a href="https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/02/who-pays-and-3-other-questions-from-the-head-of-bostons-reparations-task-force.html?outputType=amp" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Joe Feaster</a> in an interview following his appointment as chair of the task force <a href="https://medium.com/@thenewdemocracycoalition/early-recommendations-to-the-boston-reparations-task-force-2bb1a4450668">Learn More</a>