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Today, Ta-Nehisi Coates is set to testify on the merits of reparations in America—a case he made in his June 2014 cover story for The Atlantic: bit.ly/2wfGC7g 
Coates wasn’t always an advocate for this particular cause, but eventually began feeling like the liberal discourse was getting it wrong. Read more about what changed his mind: bit.ly/2WMiHZu
A month later, @DavidFrum wrote a rebuttal to Coates, writing that the cover-story argument is “a deep and dangerous misunderstanding.” bit.ly/2WQeK5W
In response to Coates’s cover story, Dallas County took it a step further—unanimously (and, it looks like, somewhat accidentally) backing a resolution offering significant monetary awards for the victims of racism. bit.ly/2WTMmzL
In the past few years, the debate around reparations has gone mainstream. Kimberly Reyes wrote for The Atlantic in December 2018 that “affirmative action should be implemented as part of a broader reparations program.” bit.ly/2x1Pijv
Georgetown’s students voted in early 2019 to tax themselves to pay descendants of enslaved people from which the university profited, instead of waiting for the school to do something. @Saahil_Desai reported: bit.ly/2wZzttJ
And, as 2020 draws nearer, candidates are being asked about their stance on reparations and what a policy could look like in practice: bit.ly/2x61j7G
The Reverend Jesse Jackson—who made reparations a key part of his presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988—spoke with @AdamHSays about the current attention to the issue matters: bit.ly/2x27iud
You can read Ta-Nehisi Coates's testimony on reparations here: "It is impossible to imagine America without the inheritance of slavery." bit.ly/2x6yNm9
