The Case for Reparations

In 2014, the Atlantic Magazine published Ta-Nehisi Coates's landmark essay, 'The Case for Reparations', where he argued that until America reckons with its “compounding moral debts” the country “will never be whole”

A postcard dated August 3, 1920, depicts the aftermath of a lynching in Center, Texas, near the Louisiana border. According to the text on the other side, the victim was a 16-year-old boy.

I. “So That’s Just One Of My Losses”

Clyde ross was born in 1923, the seventh of 13 children, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, the home of the blues. Ross’s parents owned …