07/04/2023
"The United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people," Bush said in a Wednesday news conference attended by Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., as well as other stakeholders.
The bill, Reparations NOW, calls for $14 trillion to Black Americans as compensation for slavery and Jim Crow.
