Reparations could heal America

TARANAKI, New Zealand — About 500 people sat gathered under a large white tent in late October, partly to shield themselves from intermittent rainfall, but mostly to focus their attention on the man speaking at the lectern amid the downpour. The crowd, mainly made up of members of Ngāti Maru — one …

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At the heart of the reparations debate are questions about what reparations for Black Americans could look like. If cash payments are one way forward, how much money would be sufficient to cover the horrors of centuries of slavery and decades of Jim Crow and racial discrimination? And how would the …

The conversation about reparations for slavery started not long after slavery ended. More than 150 years later, reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing racial discrimination still do not have broad popular support — but activists are keeping the age-old conversation alive. The Democratic …

The past decade has seen a resurgence of discussion about reparations for slavery. But Marxist scholar Adolph Reed believes the reparations conversation is a “waste of time.” On the third episode of 40 Acres, a special miniseries of Vox Conversations, Reed, who has long pushed back against what he …

In Evanston, Illinois, where redlining excluded the city’s Black residents from homeownership, 16 Black families — randomly selected from 600 who applied — were given tax-free grants this year to be used toward a home. California launched its reparations task force in 2021, to determine how the …

Part of the Juneteenth issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was legally freed in 1848 in Ohio when she was about 30. She only basked in that freedom for five years. In 1853, a white sheriff empowered by the fugitive slave law …