The Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC) released on Friday, Feb. 27, Taking Account: A History of Racial Harm & Injustice Against Black Illinoisans, the state’s first comprehensive, evidence-based report examining how slavery and its vestiges produce historical harms and continue to generate inequities for Black Illinoisans.
The report was commissioned by ADCRC in partnership with the University of Illinois Chicago’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.
The report traces racial injustice…
