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The Big Payback

DirectorsWhitney Dow, Erika Alexander

Fear and Reparations in the American Suburb

2022
88 min
Documentary

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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