How Reparations Fit Into New Focus on Racial Justice
As protests against police violence against Black Americans spark larger discussions about racism, an idea long relegated to the political fringes -- reparations for slavery and the discrimination that followed -- is going more mainstream. President Joe Biden supports studying whether reparations might help close racial wealth, educational and health disparities in the U.S. The issue also has traction in the U.K., where financial institutions have wrestled with the ways they benefited from slave