Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza signed the city’s $10 million reparations budget on Friday. The signing comes after months of meetings by a commission that determined how American Rescue Plan Act funds would be spent on what has been formally dubbed the "COVID-19 Equities Program."
Elorza said that when the process began, "it was met with a whole lot of skepticism."
"Folks mentioned all of the reasons why it shouldn’t be done," he said. "And there are a lot of folks, frankly, that thought it would never get done."However, the mayor now feel’s Providence can serve as a national model for reparations. […]
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