Dorothy Brown, a Georgetown University law professor, lays out a case for reparations in her new book Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past.

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past,” Dorothy Brown shares how she went from a skeptic to a ...

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” When we accept that prestigious offer of admission from Princeton ...

One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are born out of separation and inequality, but the racial divide is born out of sin. One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are ...

For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real ...

“The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brief in the Atlantic for why African Americans are owed a debt for the racial penalties paid for since slavery, “has brought more visitors to the ...

The debate over reparations for descendants of slaves catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover and others for lawmakers to address ...

The idea of giving Black people reparations for slavery dates back to right after the end of the Civil War (think 40 acres and a mule). For decades, it's mostly been an idea debated outside the ...

One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are born out of separation and inequality, but the racial divide is born out of sin. The case for reparations I’ve been traveling around the ...