The Big Payback

The Big Payback

88 mins | Documentary | June 11, 2022

Funded by a tax on cannabis, Evanston, IL, earmarked $10 million to compensate descendants of enslaved Africans for 400 years of unpaid labor. Alderwoman Simmons leads her constituents through this historic campaign for reparations for the Black c...

The Big Payback

88 mins | Documentary | June 11, 2022

The Big Payback
Funded by a tax on cannabis, Evanston, IL, earmarked $10 million to compensate descendants of enslaved Africans for 400 years of unpaid labor. Alderwoman Simmons leads her constituents through this historic campaign for reparations for the Black c...
Producers Reversal Films, Color Farm Media, Feral Films
Original title The Big Payback
Directors Whitney Dow, Erika Alexander
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