WATCH: House Judiciary Committee hearing on reparations for Black Americans

WATCH: House Judiciary Committee hearing on reparations for Black Americans

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Rights is examining the history of slavery and its brutality as they consider H.R. 40, a bill that would create a commission to study and propose a path forward for reparations. This hearing occurred as Harvard released a new study on reparations and the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic on African American communities throughout the U.S.

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