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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Black Reparations Project isn’t an easy read, but it definitely belongs on bedside tables. This collection of essays—edited by Chapel Hill writer A. Kirsten Mullen and Duke economists William ...

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 ongoing debate on reparations cannot be separated from the long historical processes that produced modern global ...

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee introduced a resolution Thursday that would effectively provide reparations to the descendants of Black American slaves amid a flurry of actions by President Donald Trump and a ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free ...

In May 2025, Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland vetoed a bill that would have established a commission to study reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans in the state. The bill, modeled after similar ...

Africa has made many demands of the world over the decades. Few have carried the moral clarity and political weight of the ...

Lee Hawkins's book argues for expanding the reparations debate to include survivors of the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era subjected Black people to racial segregation, violence, and systemic ...