A.G. Gaston was a Black entrepreneur who invested millions of dollars into the Civil Rights Movement and Black America.
Scholars say local action directed at improving access to housing, health care and education are more likely to pass than cash payments.
Recommendations start “with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country,” says Sen. Steven Bradford.
After a state task force issued a nearly 1,100-page report in 2023, lawmakers are starting to look at reparations policy options.
