DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – The Detroit Reparations Task Force told the Detroit City Council that it would provide its recommendations in June 2025 after asking for an extension.

The task force stated it has “been arduously working to meet its mandate of providing recommendations to the Detroit City Council on meaningful and viable initiatives to provide Detroit City residents with reparations to redress harms resulting from discrimination and racism.”

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The task force continued: “Given the nature of this work and the need to be historically accurate, critically conscious and contemporarily relevant, we find it necessary to request an extension of the time necessary to complete our work. Specifically, we would like to request that we be given until June 2025 to present recommendations to be considered by this council.”

The task force stated it would present a summary of its work to date to the City Council on Tuesday. The reparations task force was created after voters overwhelmingly approved Detroit Proposal R in Nov. 2021. That ballot passed by 80% to 20% margin. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, 77% of the people who live in Detroit are Black.