Boston Moves Toward Paying Reparations to Black Community

Mayor Michelle Wu appoints all-black committee to task force after a controversy over a black recreation center being turned into an illegal immigrant shelter.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks during a news conference ahead of the 114th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Convention, in Boston, Mass., on June 27, 2023. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

Plans to pay taxpayer-funded reparations to Boston’s black community are moving forward as Mayor Michelle Wu appointed an all-black committee to the Boston Reparations Task Force.

The group includes a former judge, a managing director of a local law school, a Mellon associate professor at nearby Tufts University, a government-paid historian, and an attorney for the Boston chapter of the NAACP.