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Revisiting reparations: Is it time for the US to pay its debt for the legacy of slavery?

  • Written by Anne C. Bailey, Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageU.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is spearheading fresh efforts in Congress to address reparations.Al Drago/Getty Images

Some 156 years after the end of the Civil War and the official abolition of slavery through the 13th Amendment, the idea of reparations is gaining currency in Washington.

On March 1, Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to President Joe...

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