How Audley Moore Created a Blueprint for Black Reparations

“Something that is often missing from ‘reparations talk,’ ” legal scholar Alfred Brophy observed in 2010, “is a specific plan for repairing past tragedies.” California and New York have joined the dozen or so states and municipalities that have initiated what they are calling reparations programs. As a core platform issue, presidential candidate Marianne Williamson proposed up to $500 billion in payments to the descendants of US slavery, but even that was woefully inadequate. Enslaved Africans were the first abolitionists—seizing every possible moment to liberate themselves and their families—and they were the first architects of reparations. Other groups in the… Read Full Article