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time thank you very much read order I'll introduce myself as well my name is
josepher I the chair of the [Music] T [Music] inv colle you so we can discuss this most important issue we have a number of presentations this evening um I been answer that if there are any Partners
who are here um you want them to meet you outside outside there any Partners here you know who you [Music] are thank you very much um I'm not sure if you're set up for language uh or6 here at the moment should be the
future if that is going to be necessary please contact. on the agenda that you have there make sure that for meetings um just want to give you a little bit of sense because I know a lot of folks have face that in the room what I would
specifically like to do is to make sure that we all operating from the same and that is know pay um back in December of 2022 the city council passed an ordinance which created reparations task force members of the task force were appointed by by May and that announcement was made in
February 223 um in April the task force members were not sworn in until April 203 now the ordinance when it was drafted in december22 the Hope was that was iously indicated that phase one
which was be the research Comm State phases now the three phases set forth in the ordinance phase one was to be the research in the his phase two was to be in conjunction with conversations and working with the community for the task force to present to the V a program of what or a recommendation as
to what the reparation program should be in the city of Boston and then the third phase was actually the implementation of that and not sure TK would involed that but that would be something by mayor City the date that was initially indicated in the in the ordinance that pass December 2022 is that phase one was
to be completed by June of 2023 well that was a a date that was very very ambitious and was not able to be accomplished because um the task force one was just just come together in that April would also had to in order to uh go through the process of selecting researchers had one developer request for proposal two
interview person applicants who responded to the request proposal and three present that to the task um it took most of the summer of 2023 in order to draft the request proposal it was some discussions that there were meetings that were held and were comments that were made but at the end of the day think around September it is finalized proposal is
finalized the process for interviewing candidates applicants was underway members of the task force along with members of the city of Boston participated in that process of as a result of that you will hear from one of the teams that were selected and that's the team for Northeastern University led by Professor Margaret burner and Dr Jackson They will be presenting here
this evening where some of where they are with regards to their research they had their research time frame was from 1942 president the other team which was from TU University again they based upon theous time frames that I talked about earlier uh that I spoke of earlier the D team had from 1620 to
194 and we in the process of gathering their information gathering their research and there's a meeting plan for sometime next month whereby they will do their presentation at least of the first phase what resulted in the fact that some of the time frames were were were a bit ious in December of 2023 um I asked the mayor on beh of the
task force to extend the time frame for submission of reports for phas one which was the research and I asked for that to be December of this year 2024 um once again you will hear that those stes will as well will not be accomplish as far as the research information that we were having um and
so that's where we are as far as our process um the you know we have a research subcommittee within the task force which is shed by re white P chair working with researchers we have a um Community engagement committee um and that will be discussed at a point in
time and see how that process undertaken I can just say to all consistently that at least one person standpoint the community engagement process should be should be and will be quite engaging and robust once we have a baseline of research you know I I applaud those who are having meeting such as
newcy my and others that are doing research I say go at it you know have have the conversations get your thoughts together do your read do your history so that when we engage once we get the Baseline because remember our responsibility and this task force was pointed was to look at what was the impact of and benefits
of Boston with regards to to and I know that reminded just in terms of not to say just because it's slav because we talk about rep in a number of different ways but nonetheless um there is we we hope to engage in those conversations once we have the research from the two research teams that I mentioned so with that I
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some time I give you a quick update as to what this incredible pass for in the sabath and before you hear from as well my name yes I'm not a member of the task force but here you'll see my hand and KNE [Music]
so uh a couple things we've been up to not only incredible grass partnership going heot really good updates about the second we've also been working directly with our recent part to ensure that they they have what they need to execute
the that is part of pH one work hiring anding person going to be responsible we heard feedback we heard directly from you you needed need us to have a staff member Sol we focus on this incred incredbly comp and wanted to we
have officially has been contact with a lot of each and every one of so don't be afraid
to reach out to me and connect with me all right not really need much introduction but is essentially the newest appointment to our CK Force um
I let you know it's not but the probably more about hmond a few of you I know from previous or commun and and this Bo my entire life um so I
also ran an organization called project hi which used to be based uh here and we focus on teaching tours from Boston all New Orleans and back visiting and so I have a history community history I just
[Music] Liberia archology so that we can as people of African descent di on sun slav ships to be able to document that history but also so what was exciting about being in Liberia is that we were able to meet um some of ERS in
our program 1827 and more than 600 all of them were in the United States eventually sent from Flor to the community of new Georgia in Liberia and it was amazing to be able to
meet with family members particular young people who areed those so this is able TOs and and I do still very much care about those issues but to be able to about history bring me back [Music]
to I'm glad to be here and serving taxing quite a bit of work around research and trying to figure out how we can um move that process along um collaborate with Community engagement of [Music] to bring that history as we
can the framework the next [Music] to you about something will be and then after that turn to you because going to have a research come up I'm going to vacate this area and sit out audience I can
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research group to the intruction V here all come presentation before I introduce I the quick update obviously um we will announce Mee meeting in January we will be from the TX team plann this event at a time that
was a confli with them but it was the only day that actually worked for everyone else so um they are actually doing an event tonight after and therefore we're not able to get places at the same time so um we are excited however um to you know in January be able to hear from them we'll have some more updates on that that being said um we are welcoming out our team from North
Eastern um really excited about the work that they have um done this won't be all of what they're going to present but they have brought um a beginning opportunity for us to see where how they have approached the research what they found so far and there will be more time engagement in the new year but we wanted to at least uh bring back to people what we already received from
thank you very much for having our team here say that it is our honor to be part of this process U speaking personally here as a long time resident of the city and as a social justice warrior in the city it is
participate so our team includes a number of researchers those of you here uh in nor EAS at North Eastern I would like to introduce my two colleagues who are here with me this evening um Dr Jackson Dr Jackson is a former mayor of um
of our research project here is arist at University andary has been really critical to our work um so let me just also say that team includes Ted lar a professor of policy at Eastern
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for you so just direct me okay than than so these are primary organizations for our team are listed here uh at Northeastern in addition to the several te the several entities across the university who were described here we are also working closely with schar um at in New York at St Book University in
New York de meski who has written a book about Boston and as well with Tana Cruz who is a professor of Sociology at Sim University uh and D VV is also a member of our team she's a uh resident of brry long time resident of Roxberry who has been active for many many years um in
this community and in particular uh in knowledgeable education issues um in the city of auson I've been getting 20 minutes so I going to run through this powerpint presentation that's well I'm going to leave it with with the task force and it will be available for any wish to investigate further the work of our team let me just also say that um we expect that our work will uh draw partially to
a conclusion at the end of January uh so we are really welcoming any comments participation suggestions that anyone has that will um help us um elucidate and U and develop the the project that that we're engaged in here for for the task force um so please be in touch withs or any of us if you have comments
and contributions that you think will strengthen our work let me just also say by way of introduction um that in part our job has been to pull together material uh documents material uh and data that is publicly available um so we this is not necessarily new information although some of it is new but mostly we are
iding an opportunity to get to see as a whole uh what the uh participation and policies of the city of atin have been with respect to the particular topic areas that we're investigating and let me just al fin Say by way introduction that our Focus has really been on the conduct of the city of Boston now as you know it's hard to disaggregate the conduct of the city from that of the
state or other governmental actors or private actors all of whom together acting together and in an intersectional fashion have created the reality um that has left African-Americans subordinated inated against for in our city uh however we felt that our job is as best as we can to signal uh and uh and and identify the conduct of the of of the city of the
city of aus so we next sorry so we are looking at three primary here're looking at um education uh the relationship of the city to policies of the Boston Police Department and fire department uh and housing and urban renewal those are the three main topics um that we are focusing on uh we're also
looking at other topics that obviously are related to but we haven't given quite as much attention to these other areas and those have to do with disparities in the criminal justice system uh disparities in health and experiences of the africanamerican community uh with respect to health um and finally curent practices of the in addition to our work on these specific topics we conclude our report
with what we call a harms um chapter so these are various chapters of the final report the harms chapter will try to pull together all of the work which as I say is overlapping and interdependent and intersectional uh but it will try to suggest the ways in which the Discrimination uh and subordination that we face for example in hiring in the city affected our ability to accumulate
wealth um to become unemployed to enjoy um the health prospects that other communities have enjoyed in the city um so um that will be the final chapter of the report we obviously start with education and here uh we look at education across the is 1940 our report starts in 1940 with the tus report leads off I'm so
looking at 1940 uh through 1965 uh a period before there was any real focus on the Discrimination the race treatment of our children in the public schools here in City of Austin of course in 1965 you have the racial inbalance act and from 1965 through 19 through 197 you have the city's uh intentional rejection of any effort fully to enforce
the racial imbalance act which offor racial balance act the city of 19 in the early 1970s to the 1980s as we all know we have again the reaction the failure of the city to enforce the demands commands and and principles and Orders of tan and uh in the um cities of failure to protect our children who were subjected um to the um to the to the H
desegregation practices we have the res segregation of the schools in the city of Boston which we document and then finally we look at current practices the current discriminatory practices affecting our children in the city of Austin uh an exam School respect to the exam schools um and as well as the protic of the city that
affected um the students uh we look as well uh at practices that left black teachers outside of the circle of those who are educating our children over so many years and once our teachers were hired they were not promoted to position Authority if they were
as I said we closely CL at hiring both hiring in the fire department and hiring um in the police department one could choose city as well this is necessarily Limited in scope but it exemplifies on
the practices that cost on the hiring policies of the city of the period 1940 to the president so here obviously we document the fact that they were three or four or five or six firefighters working for the city um in the period 1940 1970 it's not really until 1970 but you get significant numbers um those come as a result of
losses and even when you get uh numbers that uh that that register they are disproportionate to the population to our populations um in the city um so we look here um at the lawsuit filed um by the firefighters uh to uh increase their numbers uh and increase uh and and improve the circumstances of their employment so that they will not be
subjected to again discriminatory disciplinary practicing the failure to promote the failure to advance what say got into the fire department and looking not just at the uh relationship of the city's hiring practices to those who were were employed uh in the fire department but we're also looking at consequences of the failure fully integrate these departments on African-American communities what
happens when you have exclusively white police and fire departments policing and providing public services to so trans carefully the that were F and what happened what the city did to implement or the city's failure to imp the VAR La 75 we look as well at the conditions of work in the fire stations
themselves the kinds of harassment raal harassment from Thats who fire who want to be hired certainly in earlier days this is an ongoing problem in the fire department next SL similarly with respect to um police two back two back sorry
WR on place to summarize the practices and policies of the city with respect to hiring both with respect to the police department and the fire department differ but they
all to the same thing uh to few numbers once the numers get in those uh employees face discrimination and racial harassment they complain they are disproportionately disciplined uh and excluded from higher positions in these two uh important Public Service um entities
okay uh we look at the practices of um the Boston Housing Authority itself um here looking at the uh exclusion and intentional segregation of public housing uh in the city again from 1940 to the current period of time
starting with the concentration of africanamerican families in exclusion of africanamerican families from other opportunities in the city of Boston as those opportunities were made available to others by the Boston Housing Authority we look that Administration of the V system in the city here again the policies of the
authority are closely linked with the national with Hub and so trying to S again separate out what is responsibility from that na um is has been part of the ways in which we hope to point to the cons ofies that might be provided by the city um City itself next one in addition to the policies of the
housing lost and housing authorities uh we also take a wider lens as we look at uh urban renewal uh and statory practices uh implemented by nonpublic actors like the banks on the insurance companies um that serve uh to uh p africanamerican communities in particular areas of the city excl from other areas of the City St really with
1940 we think about the Suburban suburbanization of theost area communities were excluded from that from that process and here in City project project City allow to go
forward reverse City and black communities recuring we start our work really early on uh with the africanamerican 1940s africanamerican community in the so New York streets um in the South End of the
city and look at the way those communities will transformed to the total and ongoing disadvantage of black people black residents and their families here in the city Austin next one as I said this is not this is important but Maj piece of our report we obviously
looked at strategies in the criminal justice system what I say it's not a major piece of our report is of course um State policy is what determines what happens in our courts so this is not entirely up to the forces in the city but CLE theirl their own policies with respect to who they're police how are we going to police it obviously they have a critical impact on the experiences of
these communities um so here we're looking at the over policing as well as the under policing of communities of color and particular africaner black communities in the city of auson um I describ the kinds of aing think just across the police department but we're looking across the policing uh forces uh in in city of Washington look at what other departments have done as well we traced
the policies of on search and seizure policies well known within the criminal justice Community um that has such a devastating effect on young people in this city and also we trace the failure of the city of Boston iately to punish and to punish police officers who were engaged uh in unlawful Behavior violent behavior in af American
communities and also uh failing properly to train uh police officers uh in the city of Boston that resulted in wrongful warmful convictions that continue uh to uh affect the life outcomes and experiences of our of our people uh and uh and then fin of course we look as well at producing in the schools and the
consequences that that it has had for educational opportunities and experiences in the schools now next we look as well as I say health here again complicated because it's hard to separate out what we can of the city from what is the responsibility and policy of Private health entities for example hospitals Etc but we do our very best to show that the city play a role
over over these many decades um in reducing um Health outcomes for black people who you look as well at what the city did on the Contracting side nothing was done to equalize Contracting opportunities uh for African-Americans
in the city until really 1978 1978 that's when the program actually get started um and it's really at that point that we begin to take a close look at the ways in which afans have been shut out of Contracting um opportunities uh with the city so we take a close look at those developments as well and consider where
we are today with Contracting practices on the part of the city this is my final slide so as I said know it's a complicated story uh to tell because it's not uh as easy as one might want it to be uh to point to one particular public actor and say you did X you did y you did Z uh because public actors act in conert love public actors and they also act obviously in concert with
private parties um so but we've done you know our very best to both to identify where C put have turn right and improve the circumstances and behs and opportunities for Black Folk in this town turn here looking at the intersectional nature of the harms we look at the inequities in education the
criminal legal system economic impacts which have been so wiely documented we're not necessarily to repeat the data that's we all know about and that's already out there but we will try to show the ways in which um the FAA fully to police in a non-discriminatory way effective economic opportunities affected housing affected educational opportunities uh and obviously affected
uh the life cects including of the including prospects of African-Americans including so that um my is our report uh I'm grateful to the support of all MERS of the task force who have helped us get to this point and let me just say that we hope to have a fully
realized uh and near complete gra of this work by somewhere in sometime in January and we hope that we would be able to turn over something to the T Force um to get his feedback um and then perhaps do another run with the material so that it will be able to inform face
to of this ende and not only be able to inform the work at the task force and the city does on on this particular preparations project but will stand test of time uh and the useful to those future Generations will be that uh to see eff to understand the relationship between our city and um our
experiences thank you very want to thank you all for presenting if you want we we don't have a ton of time they want to be able to give more in the future but we wanted to
get some SP that there were maybe one or two questions that people have on what was presented and I do want to know they are going to going greater than before down line um we can't unpack the fullness of the report tonight but we can get some feedback or questions or any places where people need clarification hand back here you don't want to use my I'm okay one two and
three time grab them all Andy put them into some buckets again I want to know what you're Hing is Go deeper sh where you might want more information but we they can't unack all of that okay so we're starting here in the
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the present at this point so noreaster so we had two B noreaster been on this particular segment which is segment five spit on the other four segments so yes it would have been ideal to have each segment go but was ready today um and will be next month so it will and they will be in conversation with each other they have already been in
conversation with each other I do want to note that the way that we set it up originally was actually anticipating potentially that we would have five different BS on each of the different time they were broken up inally with a hope that actually it would allow us to um finish faster because we have five different groups working on it we had two groups put in so we with what was available that does mean that is
covering then we have the next you know so years so yes that it will we will be trying to get a linkage between the the original for each of the five and in some ways it may be an advantage that one team has been doing for of the SE it it is slowing the process down we have team may such a long time but it will me that they're far more um
connected and they would have been if we had five different teams and then we had to try to we them all together so there will be a weaving of what with what norn is doing um but we are taking the approach two things we have to pay attention to what the city specifically did that's who were trying to bring harm it was har than by the City by City And second
um trying to figure out what is the balance between the relatively small number of African Americans who were here from the very beginning all the way now and the fact that har hased to many people who weren't necessarily in the city since 16 so we'll we'll have to sort a lot of that out in the second
the folks wonder if you stand because [Music] otherwise this is the good question will this slide presentation be online the City of Austin and by the name your task force
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in a fire okay um a lot of the the immigrants or the migrants or whatever they called they they were there they double te me as a black woman and I got fired from my job at poot um so it's nice that y'all is doing research up on Black hars yall actually Haring as
well we're not get to the truth then why we stand here question is can y'all focus on like the statute of limitations the Immunity Clause and um yeah rewriting the wrongs
as well yall focus on stuff like that stat of limitations and Immunity thank you so much okay you're welcome yeah I hate when y'all try to shut us down for my to because I do a lot of this work and still in my I'm second thank you and I'm sorry for your experiences exactly
and about that um the hars that we're talking about uh cannot be litigated in a anymore because um something that happened in 1970 and 1960 the statute of is run so the whole premise the whole idea behind
reparations project is that even though legally you can't take the matter to court there is still repair and reparations due and that's why the reparations project this particular project is about looking beyond that thank you thank you so
much question one of get question respond them back than you for presentation question terms of the isue enumerated you know I observe you know it's kind of obvious people talking
about jobs sitting house criminal justice but all of these have the right fors to the driv of wellth so my question is having considered is there way to uh to calculate uh the stolen uh weth build across all of those are mentioned and especially in terms of housing I would like you
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project will be the job not just for our project as well 16 194 um so at some point the task force will have to consider how they want to how and if they want to figure out okay how do we how do we move the narrative um into something that you know resonates with some sort of but we not doing
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thank our presenters their time which is not they could have done more but they um so I hope that folks will also feel free they will be here if there's other pieces that you want to share with them with me or information or just questions you definitely continue to interact with but I don't want to um lose all comments I know few people have already signed up also com I'm going to hand it back to the
chair thank you thank of ask questions people chair could you speak up a little bit for the zoom please speak yes that's
perfect thank you okay I'm going ask make com to indicate that so I can know how many and where you are um what I'm going to do is just two minutes but I also want you to be able to uh so that I I don't want to overlook anybody so if you can line up
here and and we'll give you a mic in terms of that okay so come back up come back yes MERS come back thanking than for your report
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theity in the given F this it starts with slavery it continues grow and it is still here yes African Americans were not allowed to work work in positions where they had the intelligence and the skills they were not allowed to be
educated and they had to wait as white Boston prer in the job market which for many they were cut out of though they had the attitude to do it educ the segregation in the city and housing while white people were able to buy homes have checking accounts saving accounts and send their children off
College African amans at the turn of the C were just beginning white people had started centuries are you have to a moment on all right job opportunities just wen't there there are those who will say just put the boot
what you no boots and I'm hoping that this kind of data which some of us know we studied it can be published so that the whole Community will know that this isn't oral history I can give you some my great great grandmother wouldn't keep in her son's house because it reminded her of that house with oh no oh no I'm just telling you we
need to do something that will present an opportunity with training for those of us who have suffered through this kind of tragedy right now right now wrong that African amans in Boston have faced around the wealth disparity and along with reparations we need education
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do director of Boston people's reperations commission also of Boston My Way South but more importantly a mother of two black and brown children of which I had
to young black males AG 15 through 34 are 30 time 32 times more likely to die by gun homicide forms of violence exposure to a higher number of
imers childhood experiences and disproportionately being exposed to Poverty racism trauma and adversity if you look at vience you have to look at the Family Foundation at see that black and children are 2.5 times more likely to be involved withc children I ask the city of Boston operation task force research the systemic connections between violence and the intergenerational legacy of the trauma of slavery and
modern day violence how has trauma Legacy shap contemporary punitive attitudes towards black and brown people thank you chair M of this St M of research teamset member of Theiss organization testifying my oning support of this for and R
before pass eff work completed so far as you continue your able engagement at final report I remain mindful of the city of the GRS of the city of pass Force which are ground in the efforts of every activist and Community res who want to see Justice on of black people Bost back 2017 those
activist called to the name change Hall as proxy in the interest of a fully expanded reparations to who subsequently wrot successfully advocated for an official poliy from the city of Boston for implicity and trans legl in 2018 we explicitly called for the city of Boston reparation process which would allow for the Embrace of a full set of
outcomes and recommendations regarding this task force which include cash payouts and other policy measures that accomplish home ownership of course also raliz black econ a and the means by which a racialized education racialized educational disparity in public safety prices needs within the black Comm are
meaningfully addressed in other words we call for a constructiveness comprehensive reparations outcome page retroactively retroactively address for the harm upon black life in Bost but also repair that cons current that back to past hars but also repair
that looks towards the future of the black in the city of Boston name is I live Inon and I trace my ancestors who were in every day I live with the reality that my bloodline in this country is associated with the violence reflected and white
supremacy this anti violence was not confined to the this violence existed in the north and particularly here in Boston the city of Boston acknowledged its responsibility in trauma it has inflicted black people with 2023 apology to the black community as a way of addressing the trauma the apology that was inspired by the loss of people
reparation commission is only the first step to addressing the harm of inter intergenerational trauma again this trauma is felt even today in Boston we witness the trauma that is the result of a racist city government where vulnerable black people are not protected we at the Boston reparation commission demand policy directors for your task force to directly address these talking about them in the Contex
of stud not enough thank you [Music] Mississippi
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always here speaking because believe it or not they always want to shut me up and right now they keeping me traumatized I'm on The Black List so that's why I come here and I speak and I do what I want to do because if this is for us and by us likeu then we need to recognize that we have to speak our truths so these be testimonies this ain't research this ain't a study this is real lived experien so what I wrote
down is like um [Music] again later Boston terminated SE program and I've been homeless ever since because I believe they also ruined my Rec okay so now I'm getting knocked off housing L and I have eight grandchildren eight grandchildren three grown children
and I can't do nothing for them because I'm on a Black List was talking about racism um I also have a radio show called pop radio every Thursday from 6 to 8 and these are discussions that me and about four other people have on the radio about concerns in the community and I would love for yall to listen to Just What We have to say Okay and
there's another one um called Adas radio but I'm fly by movement pop radio in ad radio so I am somebody and I've been out here standing up for racism way longer than anybody I seen and the black on black is terrible okay so black people are on other black people that's another harm as well okay so that's all you have a
great um thank you TK Force thank you researchers for your work um one thing that I would love to you to make sure like as we get to as the research um wraps up and we get to recommendations we must not forget the conversation's going back over and over again the 400 years of hola we have to
take it like that it's not just enslave people in the 4 years of Holocaust and beyond that certain descendants of certain folks are experiencing that and also the 200 years of the that is not being acknowledged so as we move forward as we W up this work because I know I'm that you have but thank you for the research
thank you for not just the research here but to the national team as well um I do National organizing so I've been a to see what's going on and time now reparations happen we can [Music]
concentration but we talking about reparation so this work has to concentrate on the 400 Holocaust plus that we're going right now like I said in the year behind the and the fact that our population is only small in the city he has a consistent racial practices so talk
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you we to support you thank you very every thank you very much presting thank you for all of you that participated thank you all of you for coming um as was mentioned the team from tus will be presenting sometime next month so there be a notice that will be presented
um done to my own so want to thank you all have a great holiday season and we'll see you in 2025 one is about language of how folks are called and how we express that in the report another on the weal and how we qu and finally focus on black I'm not i'ms and I think there were lot of other
things people said we heard those three things and we'll try to bring those up at our next meeting how we might
thank you yeah I'm going tojin the meeting
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