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For the first time in a decade, Congress today is holding a hearing on reparations, the idea of providing financial compensation to descendants of the enslaved.
Among those testifying today is writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose seminal piece for the Atlantic, The Case for Reparations, re-invigorated the push for reparations alongside the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.