Reparations

Time to move forward with $10M reparations program

STALLED? ­Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley says he supports the city’s $10 million racial reparations program but is still reviewing plans for how the money should be spent in the ­community. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO
STALLED? ­Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley says he supports the city’s $10 million racial reparations program but is still reviewing plans for how the money should be spent in the ­community. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Ten months after city officials approved a spending plan for a $10 million racial reparations program championed by former Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, only a fraction of the money has been given out. Advocates of the program are understandably frustrated. That includes some Providence Municipal Reparations Commission members who spent countless hours at public meetings…



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