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Podcast: The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott
Episode: The Big Payback: Reparations for Descendants of Slaves with Erika Alexander
Description: Big things are happening in the movement for reparations for descendants of slaves, as the new documentary film ‘The Big Payback’ shows, and Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott spoke with the film’s co-director, Erika Alexander, all about it. The films follows Robin Rue Simmons, a founder of the non-profit FirstRepair who successfully got reparations passed in Evantaton, Illinois, the first time this happened anywhere in the United States. The film also follows the work of Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who is leading the effort in Congress to pass legislation to fund a study into reparations.Visit Ne...