The Fulton County Reparations Task Force is making headway on whether restitution is possible for Black descendants of enslaved people. The group put out an update on their progress last month.
In 2021, the task force was officially established with $250,000 in funding from the Fulton Board of Commissioners for the group to conduct two studies on the possibility of reparations for Black descendants of people who were enslaved or lived under Jim Crow laws in the county.
The task force refers to reparations as a way to repair the harm done to a specific, oppressed minority, but repair can differ between people and communities.
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