Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Testimony on Reparations
Five years ago, the journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates published “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic, a cover story that would reinvigorate national discussion over debts owed for slavery and discrimination against black Americans. Today, on Juneteenth, he is testifying at a House hearing on H.R. 40, a bill that would establish a commission to study reparations. It’s the first such hearing in more than a decade.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations
Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates in 2019 about his testimony before Congress about reparations and the effect of his article, five years later.
The Moynihan Report: An Annotated Edition
A historian unpacks The Negro Family: The Case for National Action on its 50th anniversary.
