NY City Council Member Charles Barron at a reparations rally at the NYC African Burial Ground Memorial | Getty Images By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 16, 2022 Photo Credit: ESSENCE
The decades-long debate about whether to offer reparations to Black Americans who are the descendants of slaves gained new momentum following the nationwide reckoning over racial injustice after the death of George Floyd and the blatant disparities laid bare by the