Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democratic representative from Texas, is sponsoring the resolution on reparations. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover
The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House of Representatives panel.
Conyers reintroduced the bill every session until his resignation in 2017, following sexual harassment allegations. Reparations had been a semi-dormant issue and occasional punchline in recent years, until Coates’s 2014 essay in the Atlantic magazine, The Case for Reparations, thrust the topic back into the national discourse.
In an interview with Coates as he prepared to leave the presidency, Barack Obama questioned the implementation of reparations, but not the concept.
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