America owes black people a lot for what we have endured.

For generations, Black Americans have pushed for reparations.

It's been discussed in corporate sea suites and posited by some of our greatest minds.

The matter of reparations is one of making amends to say that a nation is both its credits

and its debits.

Now in 2024, perhaps we're seeing a watershed moment.

Sign the bill!

Cities and states are taking action.

Racism and slavery in Boston,

getting historic reconsideration

with a new Reparations task force.

All mulling this question of what, if anything, is owed to black Americans.

Reparations should be welcomed by all Americans.

I'm Tremaine Lee, host of Into America.

I've been a journalist for more than 20 years covering stories about Black America

and the ways in which black people are often left out of or mischaracterized by the mainstream

narratives, but regardless of the issues I'm

covering, just about every racial injustice story can be traced back to the

sins of slavery. And there's this idea that I just can't shake, that maybe things could have been different.

What if, after the Civil War, the United States had actually taken the bold step to right its enormous wrongs.

Today's massive racial wealth gap, inequities in education and health care,

and even in the quality of the air we breathe could have all been unimaginable if only black people would have

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