Boston’s Reparations Task Force Commences Work To Study Lingering Impacts of Slavery and ‘Repair Harm’

Joseph Feaster ’75, an attorney, former president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, and current member of the city’s Black Men & Boys Commission, will serve as the chair of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s new Reparations Task Force.​​​​​​​ “We are looking forward to determining recommendations for how we reckon with Boston’s past while charting a path forward for Black people whose ancestors labored without compensation and who were promised the 40 acres and a mule they never received,” said Feaster in Boston.com.