How Reparations for Black Americans Have Gained Steam
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The concept of financial reparations for Black Americans was already being hotly debated after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a police officer. Then in 2023, California became the first state to put a potential dollar value on multi-generational inequality as a direct result of slavery. On the national stage, a bill proposed in the US House of Representatives would earmark $14 trillion to eliminate the wealth gap between Black and White Americans. Reparations have also gained traction in the UK, where financial institutions have wrestled with the ways they benefited from slavery.
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