Over time, Evanston’s Black citizens have been systematically excluded from equal access to housing, education, healthcare, police protection, and participation in public recreational opportunities. The result of these compounded inequities is today’s tremendous wealth gap between black and white residents. Most regrettably, with a few notable exceptions, white faith communities allowed the inequitable policies and practices to persist without resistance, while even participating and benefiting from them. Disparities continue to this day and we join other faith communities that are stepping forward to make amends. Lake Street Church supports the City of Evanston’s current efforts to address this unjust situation through its Local Reparations Housing Program, as a way of living out our covenant “to act against injustice and for peace.”