{"id":7380,"date":"2026-06-19T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/25000-payments-to-black-families-are-being-blocked-by-trump-the-evanston-story-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:27:56","slug":"25000-payments-to-black-families-are-being-blocked-by-trump-the-evanston-story-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/25000-payments-to-black-families-are-being-blocked-by-trump-the-evanston-story-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"$25,000 Payments to Black Families Are Being Blocked by Trump \u2014 The Evanston Story Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_2IClLUh-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Breaking today \u2014 the Trump administration&#8217;s Department<br \/>\nof Justice has filed a legal challenge to stop Evanston,<br \/>\nIllinois&#8217; landmark reparations program \u2014 the FIRST and<br \/>\nONLY government reparations program in American history<br \/>\nfor Black residents.<\/p>\n<p>The program has already distributed over $7 million in<br \/>\n$25,000 payments to Black families who suffered housing<br \/>\ndiscrimination between 1919 and 1969. Now Trump&#8217;s DOJ<br \/>\nis calling it unconstitutional racial discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>In this video we break down exactly what the Evanston<br \/>\nprogram is, how it started, who qualifies, how much has<br \/>\nalready been paid out, what the DOJ is arguing, what<br \/>\nthe pioneers of the program are saying, and what this<br \/>\nmeans for the future of reparations across America.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most important story in Black America today.<\/p>\n<p>#Reparations #Evanston #TrumpDOJ #BlackReparations<br \/>\n#EvanstoneReparations #BlackAmerica #RacialJustice<br \/>\n#HousingDiscrimination #BlackWealth #BlackHistory<br \/>\n#TrumpBlackAmerica #DOJLawsuit #BlackPolitics<\/p>\n<p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https:\/\/streamyard.com\/pal\/d\/5759717953503232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking today \u2014 the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Justice has filed a legal challenge to stop Evanston, Illinois&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hqdefault-188.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}