Reparations Advocate Seeks House Vote on Commission by Midyear
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Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee said she’s pushing for the House to vote on a bill to study reparations for slavery by mid-year.
The bill to establish a reparations study commission, if adopted, “would set America on a new tone, a new direction of full equality for the descendants of enslaved Africans,” Jackson Lee, of Texas, said in an interview for Bloomberg Quicktake. .