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Detroit's
Black
Bottom
neighborhood
before
it was
torn
down to
make way
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Images
like the
one
above
offer a
rare
glimpse
into two
of
Detroit’s
earliest
black
neighborhoods,
Black
Bottom
and
Paradise
Valley.
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STANTON
/ WALTER
P.
REUTHER
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Detroit
voters
OK
commission
to
consider
reparations
apnews.com
DETROIT
- The
city of
Detroit
will put
together
a
commission
to
consider
some
form of
reparations
for
residents.
More
than 80%
of
residents
who cast
ballots
in
Tuesday’s
general
election
voted in
favor of
a
proposal
to form
the
commission
that
will
recommend
housing
and
economic
development
programs
for the
majority
Black
city.
The
destruction
of
historically
Black
neighborhoods
in the
name of
urban
renewal,
and
discriminatory
lending
and
rental
practices
aimed to
keep
Blacks
out of
what
then
were
mostly
white
neighborhoods
are some
reasons
why
reparations
are
needed
in
Detroit,
according
to Anita
Belle,
president
of the
Detroit-based
Reparations
Labor
Union.
“We
don’t
have to
go back
to the
1800s to
find
things
that
were
done
wrong to
Black
people,”
Belle
said.
Detroit
now
joins
other
U.S.
cities
that are
mulling
some
form of
repayment
to
descendants
of
African
slaves.
In
Boston,
a City
Council
Committee
on Civil
Rights
heard
last
month
how the
city can
approach
the
issue.
The San
Francisco
Board of
Supervisors
voted
earlier
this
year to
appoint
an
advisory
committee
on
reparations.
The City
Council
in
Evanston,
Illinois,
has
voted on
paying
reparations
to
eligible
Black
households.
Forming
a
commission
is a
start,
but
action
also is
needed,
said
Belle, a
Detroit
grassroots
activist
who
founded
the
Reparations
Labor
Union in
2013.
She said
houses
owned by
the
Detroit
Land
Bank can
be used
as
reparations
to
families
who lost
their
homes
due to
tax
foreclosures,
and
taxes
from
recreational
marijuana
sales
could be
used to
pay for
forms of
reparations.
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