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Evanston Proclamation

The document is a proclamation from the Evanston Black community outlining efforts to address anti-Black racism and injustice locally. It acknowledges the national support for Black Lives Matter but notes more must be done in local communities. It commits to identifying and ending structural discrimination in Evanston by bringing attention to violence against Black people, confronting low incomes and indigence from historical economic oppression, and highlighting disparities exacerbated by COVID-19. It also supports reparations and declares youth as a collective responsibility. The proclamation is endorsed by over a dozen Black organizations in Evanston.

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Evanston Proclamation

The document is a proclamation from the Evanston Black community outlining efforts to address anti-Black racism and injustice locally. It acknowledges the national support for Black Lives Matter but notes more must be done in local communities. It commits to identifying and ending structural discrimination in Evanston by bringing attention to violence against Black people, confronting low incomes and indigence from historical economic oppression, and highlighting disparities exacerbated by COVID-19. It also supports reparations and declares youth as a collective responsibility. The proclamation is endorsed by over a dozen Black organizations in Evanston.

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A Proclamation for Black Justice

from the Evanston Black Community


in Response to the Urgency of the Time

While there has been recent national and international support for Black Lives Matter and for
grassroots protests against racism in every form, there remains a pernicious and egregious
anti-blackness throughout our nation. It has become increasingly evident that we must all rise to
meet the challenges of anti-Black racism and injustices against Black people in our own local
communities. Our commitment to the eradication of anti-Black racism in every public form in
Evanston, necessitates identifying and rooting out all structural, institutional and systemic
discrimination.

We therefore stand united and engage collaboratively and collectively to resist the incessant
and unrelenting anti-blackness in our society via the following efforts: to bring attention to
violence​ suffered by Black people as a result of a long history of anti-Black racism, and,

We also engage to stop the violence by naming anti-Black racism and its ancillary attachments,
creating and sustaining programs and providing resources, and,

We therefore engage to confront ​low income a ​ nd ​indigence ​in the Black community as products
of a long history of racialized economic terror and anti-Black policies and practices, and,

We also engage to introduce innovative programs to increase upward mobility for Black people
and families, subsequently ending low income and indigence, and,

We therefore engage to name racial terror that remains prevalent in infrastructure, housing
policies and practices, public school curriculum, higher education practices, ecological and
geographic locations, law enforcement policies and practices, economic oppression, political
appointments, voting rights, as well as business and corporate policies and practices, and,

We also engage to develop tactical and strategic teams and processes to end such racial terror
in each of these areas, working with and advising each area for the benefit of Black
independence, self-determination, and empowerment, and,

We therefore engage to highlight the significant disparities in healthcare and wellness,


particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Black people are dying disproportionately
due to factors that can and must be addressed, and,

We also engage to establish wholesale partnerships with medical centers and the healthcare
industry to promote preventative and intervention education programs, to supplement
healthcare costs and to ensure the health, wellness, and safety of Black people employed in
what have been deemed essential worker occupations and,
We also engage to declare that the youth in our communities are our collective responsibility,
regardless of organizational affiliation or lack thereof, and,

We also engage to bring attention to Black families’ historical and ongoing fight for opportunity
and justice in our public schools, and the critical role that out-of-school and community spaces
play in providing learning and educational opportunities for our children. We thus conceptualize
learning and education as extending beyond the traditional institution of schooling for Black
students and their families, and,

We therefore engage to hold all agencies serving our youth accountable, and call on these
agencies to utilize their resources to challenge anti-blackness, anti-Black racism and anti-Black
violence in all its forms, and,

We therefore engage to declare our support for reparations for Black community members to
begin the process of economic redress for the historical theft of wealth and opportunity. We
recognize reparations as a policy that confronts the legacy of anti-blackness specifically, and
takes aim at anti-Black policies and practices that have facilitated the racial inequities of our
current moment, and,

We finally engage that the tenets of this Proclamation for Black Justice will be endorsed and
supported by, but not limited to, existing Black organizations in Evanston whose names are
affixed, hereto.

Minority Business Consortium


ABC (African Black Caribbean) D65 Parents
Chessmen Club of The North Shore
Community Alliance for Better Government
Evanston (IL) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Delta Xi Sigma Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
Alpha Mu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Evanston Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Evanston Chapter of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Omega Pi Zeta Chapter
NUBAA (Northwestern University Black Alumni Assoc)
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Evanston-North Shore Alumnae Chapter
Evanston Black Male Alliance
Evanston Cricket & Social Club, LTD
FAAM (Fellowship of African American Men)
Evanston/North Shore NAACP ​
Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti
OPAL (Organization for Positive Action and Leadership)
Foster Senior Club
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