Reparations Get Brighter Spotlight in House After 2020 Protests

Lawmakers took the first step Wednesday in considering whether to provide reparations for Black Americans.

At a subcommittee hearing on legislation first introduced decades ago that would create a commission to study the issue, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said now is the right time for Congress to move on it.

“This moment of national reckoning comes at a time when our nation must find constructive ways to confront the rising tide of racial and ethnic division,” he told the panel at the hearing.

Reparations exploded into the national consciousness last summer as part of a larger discussion about ...