Advocates for reparations for blacks, those individuals and groups who want members of modern society who never owned slaves to pay huge sums to members of today's black community who never were slaves, now are demanding $15 billion from "white" churches.

A report from WHDH explains the so-called Boston People's Reparations Commission issued a weekend statement demanding Boston's "white" and "establishment" churches "confess to their complicity" and "transfer portions of their enormous wealth to a mostly impoverished and underserved black community."

"Many of the well-known white churches in downtown Boston are connected to the slave trade and the proliferation of what was a 'slavetocracy' in our city," claimed Kevin Peterson, founder of the activist organization.

He earlier prompted the city to apologize for "complicity" in slavery, and that statement later triggered the creation of the task force.

"Beginning in the 17th century, all of our colonial churches were founded on the profits of slavery. Colonial ministers were among the most likely to have enslaved servants," said John Gibbons of the Arlington Street Church in Boston.

"Black people, the descendants of slavery, have been washing the feet of our oppressors for well over 400 years," said Danielle Williams, director of a social-justice group called Prophetic Resistance Boston.