![]() It will include testimony from writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, actor Danny Glover, and Sen. On June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is holding its first congressional hearing on reparations in more than a decade. Now that discourse is headed to the halls of Congress. In 2019, that discussion has become a full-blown political debate among politicians, presidential candidates, and academics over what it would look like to apologize and provide restitution to the people harmed by slavery and its legacy. For much of the 150 years since the official end of slavery in the United States, talk of the need for reparations has existed. ![]()
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