{"id":75008,"date":"2026-06-17T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/trump-administration-seeks-to-halt-first-us-reparations-program-for-black-people\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:55:33","slug":"trump-administration-seeks-to-halt-first-us-reparations-program-for-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/trump-administration-seeks-to-halt-first-us-reparations-program-for-black-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration seeks to halt first US reparations program for Black people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House joined suit to stop city of Evanston, Illinois, from compensating victims of housing discrimination<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1446151\/dl\">joined<\/a> a lawsuit attempting to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations plan that would compensate Black residents of a Chicago suburb, arguing that its race-based criteria is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The program, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, offers Black residents and their descendants up to $25,000 for past raced-based housing discrimination. When the city\u2019s program was approved in 2021, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2020\/oct\/06\/long-fight-for-slavery-reparations-evanston-chicago\">hailed a model<\/a> for reparations movements across the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/17\/lawsuit-stop-reparations-evanston-illinois\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House joined suit to stop city of Evanston, Illinois, from compensating victims of housing discrimination Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Trump administration has joined a lawsuit attempting to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations plan that would compensate Black residents of a Chicago suburb, arguing that its race-based criteria is unconstitutional. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration seeks to halt first US reparations program for Black people\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/trump-administration-seeks-to-halt-first-us-reparations-program-for-black-people\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration seeks to halt first US reparations program for Black people\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}