When you last heard from us, we had just taken you on a deep dive of an untold story about reparations.

If you follow our family's trajectory, our predecessors clearly appreciated that they were given a running start.

A story of what could have been,

had America made good on its promise

to make black people whole after the Civil War. A black entrepreneur in the

1860s that had several thousand dollars. The sky's the limit, like literally the sky is the limit

We covered a lot of ground following the cochley family and its descendants across generations and state lines

Over the last five episodes they showed us the resilience of black people

then and now and open the door for a new angle on the ongoing debate of reparations.

Imagine if they had that little step up.

It would have changed the course of lives of millions of people.

When we first met Gabriel Coghley, he was a cunning businessman, flipping the

tables on a law meant to compensate white slavers and using it to secure his own

family's freedom and financial security.

And if that wasn't the stuff of legend on its own, we also learned of his contributions

to his own community, a billowing and blossoming black Washington, D.C.

He probably was one of our first business owners and he had to be a pillar in some way to that community.

He owned a successful Worcester business. He was also one of the

founding members of the oldest black Catholic church in D.C. St. Augustine. But two decades before

the founding members of

Saint Augustine would gather to form their own congregation.

A darker history within the Catholic Church was unfolding just off the

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