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The Big Payback
By Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow. A co-production of Feral Films/Reversal Films and The Big Payback, LLC, in association with Color Farm Media and Level Forward.
Season 24
Episode 5
A rookie alderwoman from Evanston, Illinois, led the passage of the first tax-funded reparations for Black Americans. While she and her community struggle with the burden to make restitution for its citizens, a national racial crisis engulfs the country. Will the debt ever be addressed, or is it too late for this reparations movement to finally get the big payback?
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