Hey everyone. We've got a really special treat for y'all, bonus episode of our series uncounted millions the power of

reparations where we dug into the untold story of Gabriel Coakley one of the only black

people in the US to ever receive reparations for slavery.

For this episode we took the show to a live audience at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York City

for a conversation and debate with Pulitzer Prize winning journalists and

creator of the 1619 project Nicole Hannah Jones and author and commonists at

the Grio Michael Harriet. We talked about the case for reparations today, who should or should not qualify for them,

and what it might take for reparations legislation to finally break through.

So without further ado, here's the show, recorded May 29th, 2024. That is a welcome right there.

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We can't see you but we can feel you so thank you very much. You know as they say you could be any number of places but you're here with us so we really appreciate that. Y'all let's give it up for for the audience one more time.

So welcome to this special live podcast taping of Into America presents

uncounted millions the power of reparations. If you haven't listened yet, we tell the improbable story of Gabriel Coakley,

a free black man who around the time of the Civil War secured his family's freedom

and then went on a mission for everything that was owed to them.

It's truly the greatest reparation story never told.

And in the audience tonight we have several descendants of Gabriel Coakley,

but y'all might stand up and let's give it up for them? There we go.

Now one of the most amazing takeaways from this family story is this rare example of truly what could have been for black America had we been compensated after enslavement, had we been made whole, things today would look much, much different.

Yet the struggle to secure reparations has been long and daunting.

So tonight's conversation, I'm glad to have Nicole and Michael

to really important voices not just in black America but America

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