Reparations for Amherst (R4A) Founders Matthew Andrews and Michele Miller stand with Dr. Amilcar Shabazz, Professor at the W.E.B. DuBois Department of African American Studies at UMASS Amherst, outside a Juneteenth Community Jubilee Celebration in the town common, Saturday in Amherst, MA.

In this partial view of the Amherst Community History Mural, Cambridge artist David Fichter, on scaffolding at upper right, works on the Amherst Hotel portion of his recreation while his assistant, Liane Noddin, upper left, of Somerville, works on a winter landscape near the likenesses of two Civil War soldiers on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 3, 2019. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING