HOMEGROWN: Amelia Lopez, left, Southside Community Land Trust food access associate, and Appoline Alphonsine, a college intern, sort through vegetables harvested by the Providence nonprofit. SCLT recently received an $80,000 grant from the city that was not part of the $10 million racial reparation initiative. Some have complained that the city is moving too slow on deploying the $10 million equities program. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
Jim Vincent threw himself into the work when he was appointed to the Providence Municipal Reparations Commission in early 2022 because he saw an opportunity for justice. Vincent, a former president of the Providence branch of the NAACP, and 12 other commission members appointed by former Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and the City Council were…
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Reparations my foot. Just another waste of the hard working taxpayers’ money. Politicians using taxpayer money to buy votes as usual.