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The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
Responses to our June cover story and more.
The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
Commissioners unanimously backed a resolution inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Atlantic cover story after they failed to listen to its contents.
"It's really, really important that, you know, if we're going to have this fight, that folks educate themselves on the history," Coates told the audience at an Atlantic event last night.
A rare clip of the famed civil-rights leader toward the end of his life
They’re not an abstract notion. They’re particular amounts of money paid to particular people. To atone for America's sins, whom should the government pay, how much, and why?
Doing so needn't interfere with fully confronting crimes against black America.
A reply to David Frum
Considering the single most important question about racial restitution: How would it work?
The freewheeling opportunity associated with 20th-century California was not available to black residents, and that exclusion reverberates in our neighborhoods and communities today.
Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
Other countries are distorted by their failure to come to terms with brutal realities of their past. So are we.
In a neighborhood where 43 percent of residents live below the poverty line, Billy Lamar Brooks Sr. is trying to help kids build a future.
Members of the Contract Buyers League recount their fight against racist real-estate practices.