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What to Do About Reparations

What to Do About Reparations

Tuesday, January 20, 2026
More than a decade ago, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successfully pushed reparations into the contemporary conversation with his seminal essay on why, after 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, and decades of discriminatory housing policies, the United States owed a debt to African Americans that it simply could not wish or wave away. Read more... The post What to Do About Reparations appeared first on Christianity Today.