The Unpaid Debt — Reparations and America's Reckoning

Send us Fan Mail For over a century, the United States has debated racial justice while sidestepping its oldest unpaid bill. This episode argues for reparations not as charity, but as debt collection. Drawing on the legal and historical research of civil-rights attorney Julian Johnson, we trace a direct line from slavery's stolen labor to today's racial wealth gap — through land dispossession, convict leasing, and the racial-terror lynchings used to keep Black economic independenc...