After Lotte Lieb Dula discovered her family connection to slavery, she crafted an online guide to reparations and racial healing.

Scholars say local action directed at improving access to housing, health care and education are more likely to pass than cash payments.

Recommendations start “with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country,” says Sen. Steven Bradford.

After a state task force issued a nearly 1,100-page report in 2023, lawmakers are starting to look at reparations policy options.