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Protest for reparation, 2002
Lindi Bobb, 6, attends a slavery reparations protest outside New York Life Insurance Company offices August 9, 2002 in New York City. Protesters claim the company benefited from slave labor and wants payments to the descendants of victims of the transatlantic slave trade.
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In this installment, the panel reacts to Ta-Nehisi Coates' ambitious, exhaustive essay, "The Case For Reparations," in the June issue of "The Atlantic Monthly."

Coates essentially builds a new framework for considering reparations, arguing many of the vestiges and institutions of slavery continued for 150-years after slavery was abolished.

The panel lauds Coates for illuminating, through individual case studies, the institutional barriers which denied rights to generations of African Americans and prevented them from accumulating wealth.

They also discuss whether today's society is ready for an open, honest discussion of reparations.

Read the automated transcript.