Ta-Nehisi Coates, Danny Glover call for slavery reparations before Congress
WASHINGTON — In a packed hearing before a congressional panel on Wednesday, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover called for , H.R. 40, the "Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act," which would not allocate money for reparations but would set up a committee to find ways to do so. "The Case for Reparations" had helped kickstart the current discussion about reparations, argued that "it is impossible to imagine America without the inheritance of slavery." A wide variety of proposals for slavery ...
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