How Reparations Fit Into New Push for Racial Justice: QuickTake

As protests against police violence against Black Americans spark larger discussions about racism, an idea long relegated to the political fringes -- reparations for slavery and the discrimination that followed -- is going more mainstream. A bill under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives would create a commission to study reparations for the descendants of slaves. The issue also has traction in the U.K., where financial institutions have wrestled with the ways they benefited from slavery.

1. What are reparations?

The term is usually used to mean monetary compensation for widespread injustice. But it can be applied more broadly. ...