About the Book: Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bells Faces at the Bottom
of the Well, one of the countrys foremost voices on reparations, offers a
radical and vital new framework going beyond the current debate over this
controversial issue.
For over a century, the idea of reparations for the descendants of enslaved
Black Americans has divided the United States. However, while the iconic phrase
"40 acres and a mule" encapsulates the general notion of reparations, history
has proven that the damages of enslavement on the African American community far
exceed what