Reparations for African Americans has long been a sticking point for a redress to this nation’s reckoning with both its historical wrongs and its contemporary consequences. Reparations are not merely ...

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

Cincinnati NAACP President David Whitehead urged reparations support while Santa Clara County explores compensation and Asheville navigates federal scrutiny.

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” When we accept that prestigious offer of admission from Princeton ...

Ryan Coleman is former president of the Randallstown NAACP. This week, he addresses the best ways to ensure a prosperous future of Black Marylanders. Credit: Courtesy photo I have always been about ...

NPR CEO Katherine Maher found herself in the hot seat during a heated congressional subcommittee hearing when she faced questions about 2020 posts to Twitter, now X, in which she called for white ...

One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are born out of separation and inequality, but the racial divide is born out of sin. The case for reparations I’ve been traveling around the ...

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Note: This program originally aired on Feb. 10, 2025. Reparations for African Americans has long been a sticking point for a redress to this nation’s reckoning ...

One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are born out of separation and inequality, but the racial divide is born out of sin. One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are ...

Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic magazine (May 21). In making his argument, Coates goes through the ...