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Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes the Case for Reparations

Hillman Judge Ta-Nehisi Coates makes the case for reparations in a cover story at the Atlantic. The piece begins: “Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”

It’s an important conversation and one that’s long overdue. We at Hillman are biased, but we can’t think of a better person to put forward the moral and historical case for reparations than Mr. Coates.