Special report | Reparations
Reparations alone will not heal America’s racial divides
And practical questions over how they would work remain formidable
Editor’s note: Twelve months on from the killing of George Floyd, The Economist is publishing a series of articles, films, podcasts, data visualisations and guest contributions on the theme of race in America. Among them is a piece offering a different view on reparations.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “The freedman’s bureau”
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