Providence, Rhode Island, Mayor Jorge Elorza last week signed an executive order creating a city commission to develop recommendations on how to facilitate reparations payments. Within three months, the Providence Municipal Reparations Commission will study reparation work other U.S. cities have done, reach out to the community and create a strategy on how to use American Rescue Plan funds to facilitate direct payments to residents. Additional cities are following suit, including Boston, where three city council members introduced an ordinance last month to form a reparations committee, and Detroit, where residents voted yes on a November resolution to form a reparations task force.