DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Officials in the North Carolina city of Durham have called for a federal program that would give reparations to the descendants of people who were enslaved.
The Raleigh News & Observer reports that the call came in a resolution that passed at a meeting on Monday night.
The resolution stems from a recommendation from the city’s Racial Equity Task Force. It delivered a 14-page report to council members in July.
“This is a resolution responding to several of the recommendations by the race equity task force, which concerns areas of policy that are either outside of our legal scope or our financial size in order to be able to implement,” Mayor Pro Tem Jillian Johnson said.
The City Council is also calling for a universal basic income, a guaranteed living wage and an increase to the minimum wage.
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