The city of Boston recently paid a total of $150,000 to two men who were wrongfully accused of killing a pregnant woman, Carol Stuart, in 1989.

The payments come more than a year-and-a-half after Mayor Michelle Wu issued formal apologies to the two men, Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson. Bennett received a payment of $100,000, and Swanson received $50,000, according to City Hall officials. They did not provide any more details about the settlement.

During an emotional press conference officials convened in 2023 to issue the apologies, Wu decried how a “systemic campaign” targeted Black men based on a “false, racist claim” in the case of Carol Stuart.

The Stuart case, which was chronicled in a lengthy investigation by The Boston Globe before Wu’s apologies, shone a light on the rac

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