Evanston, Illinois, became the first community in the nation to begin paying reparations to Black residents for generational discrimination. Will it prove to be a model for others?
Evanston in 2019 created a reparations fund that uses tax revenue from recreational marijuana to help Black residents whose families suffered from past discrimination.
CBS News correspondent Femi Redwood shares the details.
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