Detroit — Four months after more than 80% of voters approved creating a reparations commission, Detroiters now have a two-week window to weigh in on who should help determine how to address what many say is a legacy of governmental systemic racism in the nation’s largest majority-Black city.
The task force is supposed to develop short-, mid- and long-term recommendations within the next year to address the creation of generational wealth and boost economic mobility and opportunity in the Black community.