This ethnographic research examines the specific strategies used by Black communities fighting for educational justice and autonomy in the self-proclaimed liberal-progressive city of Evanston, IL. In 2021, Evanston became the first city in the United States to vote on and approve housing reparation for Black communities impacted by historical redlining. In the wake of that decision, Evanston's elementary school district voted to return a school to the historically Black 5th ward. This presentation examines how Black communities resist anti-black educational policy by reclaiming and rearticulating educational spaces, particularly within a liberal-progressive district that has promised reparations. This talk will argue that liberal attempts at repair are reconfigured to protect and maintain white logics of space property, and share the ways that Black communities secure themselves in the future of their schools and cities in spite of.