'From Here to Equality' Author Makes A Case, And A Plan, For Reparations
In a new book, economist William Darity Jr. argues that monetary payments are owed directly to the descendants of enslaved people, to help reverse more than two centuries of disenfranchisement.
When slavery ended, the disenfranchisement of African Americans did not. Discrimination continued in jobs, housing, education — barriers that have contributed to the staggering economic inequality that persists in the country today.
In a new book, economist William Darity Jr. makes the case for reparations as an answer to closing the racial wealth gap.
, written by Darity and his wife, A. Kirsten Mullen,
