There's much buzz about reparations for slavery since the US House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee recently voted to send the decades-old HR 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, to the full House.
The bill seeks a greenlight to form a 15-person commission to get the conversation started about the "cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery" and subsequent racial and economic discrimination against African Americans that still exists, and to make recommendations to Congress about appropriate remedies.