Kupe, formerly the first director of diversity, equity, inclusion, and compliance for the city’s inspector general, co-founded a Black women-owned law firm and leads a consulting enterprise focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism colonialism. At a ceremony on Tuesday, Johnson signed an executive order to establish the reparations task force, which was initially set to start on January 1 with a $500,000 budget allocation from his $16.77 billion 2024 budget.
D.C. Council member Kenyan R. McDuffie (I-At Large) introduced legislation to create a task force aimed at studying how reparations could be implemented. (Craig Hudson for The Washington...
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