BU School of Public Health
Friday, November 1, 2019
The topic of reparations in the United States dates as far back as the Reconstruction Era, but it has gained particular momentum in today’s national conversation, as Congress and 2020 presidential candidates discuss how to make formal amends for America’s history of racial inequality.
Today, Wednesday, November 6, the School of Public Health will host a Diversity & Inclusion Seminar, Black Reparations: The ARC of Justice, featuring William Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy and director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.
Darity is a leading voice on reparations and testified at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on H.R. 40 in June. “For too long the nation has refused to take steps to solve an unethical predicament of its own making—the problem of the unequal status of black and white Americans,” he said in his testimony. “A policy of reparations is a set of compensatory policies for grievous injustice.”
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