St. Louis is creating a commission to consider paying reparations to descendants of the victims of racist policies - following a lead set by cities in , and , but raising interesting challenges in a struggling city of 300,000 where 45 percent of residents are black.Tishaura Jones, the mayor of St. Louis, on Wednesday signed an executive order to create a nine-member volunteer commission to explore and recommend reparations.'The people closest to the problems are closest to the solution,' said Jones.
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