An artists collage with a theme of reparations.

Reparations: Why Paying Them in Cash is Throwing Good Money After Bad

African Americans won’t turn the tide by going on a shopping spree, or leaving it to whites to decide what we can and cannot teach our children, where we work, and for how much, whether we are free or imprisoned, or whether we live or die. We need power over our own communities just as the white working class needs it over theirs. . . .