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ksuadminApril 15, 2021 A House of Representatives committee voted Wednesday (14) to recommend, for the first time, the creation of a commission to study the possibility of offering reparations to African Americans for slavery in the United States. , in addition to a “national request for an apology” For centuries of discrimination. The early vote in the House Judiciary Committee was a historic milestone for reparations supporters, who have struggled for decades to garner broad support for proposed reparations for the lingering effects of slavery. Democratic parliamentarians on the committee passed a law creating the commission by 25 to 17 votes, overcoming Republican objections. Entitled HR 40 because of the promise made at the time of the American Civil War and never held to give “40 acres of land and a mule” to ex-slaves, the bill is still unlikely to become law. With opposition from some Unified Democrats and Republicans, who argue that black Americans do ....