Whether or not Boston will be doling out reparations appears to be a foregone conclusion and to determine what the final tab will be, Mayor Michelle Wu (D) announced a ten-member committee complete with a college student and two high school juniors.
In December, the Boston City Council voted unanimously to proceed on the matter of reparations, and on Tuesday Wu revealed who had been selected to present a recommendation come June 2024 “for truth, reconciliation and reparations addressing the City of Boston’s involvement with the African slave trade.”
As no surprise, the panel is set to be led by a former president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, Joseph D. Feaster Jr., and is filled with activists from academia and nonprofits.
Finding herself somewhere between those two, Wu had named Black Lives Matter organizer and University of Massachusetts student Carrie Mays, 22, a member alongside the equally surprising choices of Jeremiah E. Burke High School juniors Damani Williams and Denilson Fanfan.
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