When Will We Move Beyond Merely "Exploring" the Idea of Reparations?
In 2019 Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (18th District-Texas) sponsored the H.R. 40 bill that introduced the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans. The commission was assembled to examine slavery and discrimination in the U.S. from 1619 to the present by identifying three key variables:
1.) The role of the federal an…
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