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Scholar Outlines What Reparations Might Look Like

九色网 | By Megan Kamerick

Published February 19, 2021 at 7:57 AM MST

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University Showcase, 2/19, 8a: On this episode we explore the concept or reparations with , who has been studying transitional justice and reparations around the world for years. She鈥檚 an associate professor of political science at the University of New Mexico.

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The concept of reparations is ancient, but it in the United State the issue has gained renewed urgency in the wake of last year's police killings of African Americans. Democratic presidential candidates debated the issue in 2020 and recently the House Judiciary Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss establishing a federal commission to explore reparations for the descendants of enslaved Americans.

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- Axios
- The Atlantic
- NPR
By Kathy Powers and Kim Proctor - Foreign Policy Analysis
LAITS Podcast with Kathy Powers
- testimony submitted by Human Rights Watch
- opinion piece by Robert L. Woodson Sr.

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Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to 九色网 as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women鈥檚 Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.

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