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Group calls for Boston to pay $15B as reparations for slavery
As Boston’s task force studying how the city might enact reparations continues its work, a grassroots organization on Saturday called for a price tag of $15 billion.
The Boston Peoples Reparations Commission held a news conference in Roxbury to announce their proposal.
“The wealth of this city was built on slavery. And the city is responsible to pay back the wealth they extracted free of charge from other human beings who died at some point in the labor for this city,” said Rev. Kevin Peterson, who founded and runs the New Democracy Coalition.
The $15 billion would be split three ways, according to the commission’s proposal: $5 billion in direct cash payments to Black Boston residents, a $5 billion investment in new financial institutions and $5 billion to address the racial education education gap and for anti-crime measures.
By comparison, Boston’s budget for Fiscal Year 2024 is $4.28 billion.
The organizers of the Boston Peoples Reparations Commission argued that educational effects of slavery could be felt 100 years after it was abolished.
The City of Boston established its Reparations Task Force in 2022. The group, which last met Feb. 6, website lists its focus areas as:
- Working with a research partner to release a study on the legacy of slavery in Boston and its impact on descendants today
- Engaging the community throughout the process to include input from lived experience
- Providing recommendations to the Mayor for reparative justice solutions for Black residents
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New Mass. plan puts equity at center of environmental policy
Massachusetts’ environmental arm has a new strategy to bring equity into focus in the programs and policies under its purview.
The Healey administration released its first environmental justice strategy Thursday, a 182-page report t…
Person hit by vehicle on highway in Sutton
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on a highway in Sutton, Massachusetts, on Saturday night, officials said.
The crash took place on Route 146 north at Exit 13, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. It closed two lanes of the highway, the Worcester-Providence Turnpike.
More details on the crash, including if the pedestrian was badly hurt, weren’t immediately available.
NBC10 Boston has reached out to state police for more information.
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Suspect IDed in Bellingham convenience store stick-up, police chase, crash
Police say they’ve identified the man believed to have robbed a convenience store in Bellingham, Massachusetts, at gunpoint last week, then escaped after a police car and foot chase in nearby Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Agapito Davila, a 41-yea…
Masked would-be robber caught scaling fire escape in North End, Boston police say
A man in a ski mask was arrested in Boston’s North End on Saturday after being spotted climbing a fire escape Saturday morning, police said.
Officers spotted the man, dressed all in black, after receiving a report of a person climbing the fire escape near the intersection of Cooper and Lynn streets, Boston police said.
They told the man to climb down the fire escape, which he started to do, before heading back up to flee, according to police. The officers saw the man jump down on a different street and took him into custody after a foot chase.
The man was identified as Calvin Feeney, a 24-year-old from Douglas. He faces charges in Boston Municipal Court of attempted breaking and entering, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.
It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney who could speak to the charges.
