🚨 JUST IN: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just announced he will be handing race-based grants ONLY to low and moderate-income neighborhoods for “slavery reparations”
“As we celebrate Juneteenth, we are recommitting ourselves to the critical work of repairing past harms through investment and opportunity,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson.
“The ultimate goal of the Wealth Our Way initiative is to shift power in neighborhoods to the hands of the very residents who have remained grounded in their community’s identity and are ready to write a new story for the generations to come after them,” said Community Desk Chicago CEO and President Ja’Net Defell.
In May, the U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into Mayor Brandon Johnson over allegations discriminatory hiring practices.