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Civil rights advocates have long said that reparations could help close the multitude of inequities that Black Americans face, such as the stark health disparities that have become clearly apparent during the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately affected communities of color.
“Reparations for slavery is about reckoning with the institution itself which we haven t fully documented and accounted for, but very much about the present day and how most of our inequities today are connected to the legacy of slavery when thinking about how racism has harmed the black community,” Dreisen Heath, an assistant researcher and advocate at Human Rights Watch who’s also speaking at Wednesday’s hearing, told The Hill.
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th president is on trial by the U.S. Senate. President Biden took the oath of office in a ghost town. He delivered his inaugural address to a crowd of hundreds, not hundreds of thousands, after a campaign that divided Americans more than any election since 1860.
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Even before the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters before the Nov. 3 election itself a shocking percentage of Americans (23%) asserted that political violence might be justified if the outcome didn’t go their way. As a candidate, Biden expressed apprehension about where such thinking might lead, and in his inaugural address he defined in a single word the trait Americans must summon to meet the challenges of the moment: “unity.”