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The debate on making reparations for slavery is as old as the Republic. Will the nation finally face up to its history? (episode)
The writer set out to make America stop laughing at jokes about reparations. Five years later, Presidential candidates are taking his research very seriously.
Sekou Sundiata’s poem, read for us by Carl Hancock Rux, addresses the debts that white culture and society owe to African-Americans.
After decades on the fringes, the debate around reparations has moved into the political mainstream. With eight Presidential candidates interested, is there a future for reparations?
In 1838, Georgetown administrators sold nearly 300 enslaved people to sugarcane plantations to help fund the college. In 2019, students voted to pay reparations to their descendants.
Three prominent scholars discuss how reparations would work, and address a controversy over who would be eligible.