The country has leaped far ahead of others on redressing the wrongs of its past. While the program isn’t perfect, it has lessons to teach the US. TARANAKI, New Zealand — About 500 people sat gathered under a large white tent in late October, partly to shield themselves from intermittent rainfall, …
Reparations could heal America
Vox's Fabiola Cineas reports on how the US can create a better future by reconciling the past.
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Economist William “Sandy” Darity and folklorist Kirsten Mullen on how the United States can compensate Black Americans for slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing discrimination. At the heart of the reparations debate are questions about what reparations for Black Americans could look like. If cash payments …
Lawyer and activist Nkechi Taifa explains why reparations is a policy issue “whose time has come.” 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 …
Adolph Reed on why talk about reparations is counterproductive. 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 …
Local governments and universities are taking reparations into their own hands. But can these efforts be successful or enough? In Evanston, Illinois, where redlining excluded the city’s Black residents from homeownership, 16 Black families — randomly selected from 600 who applied — were given …
Keeping the promise of “40 acres and a mule” might have transformed life for Black Americans. A movement to secure payments for descendants of enslaved people rages on. Part of the Juneteenth issue of The Highlight, produced in partnership with Capital B. Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was legally …