A hot-button topic, the issue of how to compensate Blacks for centuries of injustice has made strides locally but not federally.
The topic of reparations, which has gained renewed attention in light of recent racial justice protests, got a civic boost this week in Asheville, N. C., as the City Council voted to apologize for the city’s historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties to Black residents and voted to provide reparations that will benefit them and their descendants.
