Amherst Approves Reparations Fund For Black Residents

The federal government doesn't seem likely to give black Americans reparations anytime soon, but a left-leaning town in western Massachusetts will. The town council in Amherst voted 12-1 to approve a "Reparations Stabilization Fund" on June 21. It's a fund that will reimburse the town's black residents for hate and racial discrimination they have faced in the past, as The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports.

The federal government doesn't seem likely to give black Americans reparations anytime soon, but a left-leaning town in western Massachusetts will. The town council in Amherst voted 12-1 to approve a "Reparations Stabilization Fund" on June 21. It's a fund that will reimburse the town's black residents for hate and racial discrimination they have faced in the past, as The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports.…