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What the US can learn from Africa about slavery reparations

  • Written by Kwasi Konadu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor, Colgate University
imageActivists mark National Reparations Day in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2019.Alex Wong/Getty Images

The House Judiciary Committee voted on April 14, 2021, to recommend the creation of a commission to study the possibility of paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States.

The measure, H.R. 40, would establish a...

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