The United States government has a long history of providing compensation to Americans who have experienced harm. Why then are reparations to Black Americans for slavery-related and racial harms considered so controversial? In a groundbreaking study, Professor Linda J. Bilmes and Professor Cornell William Brooks present how government-provided reparations are the norm, and argue that the U.S government has both a fiscal and moral responsibility to compensate Black Americans for centuries of interlocking injustices. 

Learn more and register: Reparations for Black Americans: Radical or Routine?, Friday, February 18, 2022, 4 - 5 p.m. - Events Calendar – Harvard Gazette