Buck and Gracie Close examine their family’s records with genealogist Core Lyles at the White Homestead in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Courtesy of the ACLU. Buck and Gracie Close are funding a basic income program for victims of unjust policing.
They view the program as a form of reparations for their family’s history as slave owners.
The program, supported by the ACLU of Louisiana, is giving $1,000 a month to 12 people. Buck and Gracie Close aren’t shy about their family history.The siblings, both in their 70s, are the descendants of slave owners who operated lucrative cotton mills in […]
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