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Since its introduction in 1989, support has grown for HR 40, the federal legislation to establish a commission to study slavery and discrimination in the United States from 1619 to the present and make recommendations for how to repair harm done to descendants of enslaved Africans.  HR 40 has nearly 200 cosponsors… But it has not made progress in congress since Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) brought it forward. As this legislation stands still, organizers, scholars and local civil servants are developing programs and plans to provide various forms of reparations for African descend...

From California to North Carolina, people are making reparations a reality.

I learned something from my colleague Steve Harrison last week: Partisan school board elections are more common in North Carolina than partisan city council races. Based on my experience in Mecklenburg County I had assumed the opposite was true.

In a process already rife with changes, Asheville's Community Reparations Commission heard proposed tweaks to its project timeline.

The reparations commission has made its 2nd recommendation to Buncombe County and Asheville, one that seeks to stop harm against Black residents.