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If America is to atone for this defect, reparations for Black Americans is part of the healing and reconciliation process. The Rev. M.J. Divine, better known as Father Divine , was one of the earliest leaders to argue clearly for "retroactive compensation", and the message was spread via International Peace Mission publications.
The stated mission of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America is: ...to win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing in the United States and its territories for the genocidal war against Africans that created the TransAtlantic Slave "Trade" Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and Chattel Slavery’s continuing vestiges (the Maafa).
The topic of reparations gained renewed attention in 2020 [45] as the Black Lives Matter movement named reparations as one of their policy goals in the United States. In 2020, rapper T.I. supported reparations that would give every African American US$1 million and asserted that slavery caused mass incarcerations, poverty, and other ills.
In 2021, 77% of Black Americans said they supported issuing reparations tied to slavery, while only 18% of white Americans agreed, according to the Pew Research Center.
While Evanston, Illinois, became the first city in the country in 2021 to actually pay reparations to its eligible Black residents, and New York recently enacted a commission to study the effects ...
It is the most ambitious effort in the country to address redress for the impact of slavery on Black people, with task force members saying they want to create a reparations blueprint for the country.
The act aims to create a commission to examine the merits of introducing reparations to African-Americans for US slavery. The most recent sponsor of the act was Rep. Ayanna Pressley, on January 3, 2025, to the 119th Congress. [1] Before that Sheila Jackson Lee proposed the bill in January 2023 before her death in 2024. [2]
Some advocates made the case that all Black Californians should be eligible for reparations, though legal scholars provided testimony that broad race-based solutions could face legal challenges.