How to Steal Things, Exploit People, and Avoid All Responsibility
The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
The Case for Reparations
Reckoning with America’s history of racial plunder
The Conversation
Responses to our June cover story and more.
Home Is Where the Hatred Is
The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
Slavery Made America
The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
How Racism Invented Race in America
The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
How Dallas County Accidentally Backed Reparations
Commissioners unanimously backed a resolution inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Atlantic cover story after they failed to listen to its contents.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Not Knowing How Much You Don't Know
"It's really, really important that, you know, if we're going to have this fight, that folks educate themselves on the history," Coates told the audience at an Atlantic event last night.
Martin Luther King Makes the Case for Reparations
A rare clip of the famed civil-rights leader toward the end of his life
The Elusive Specificity of Reparations
They’re not an abstract notion. They’re particular amounts of money paid to particular people. To atone for America's sins, whom should the government pay, how much, and why?