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Jul 11, 2024 | msn.com | Linda Bilmes |Cornell Brooks

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Jul 11, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Linda Bilmes |Cornell Brooks

Last week marked the 60th anniversary of one of the most vigorously opposed and yet ultimately transformative laws in American history, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The legislation banned centuries of discrimination in employment as well as segregation in public transportation and accommodations, affecting the lives of millions of Black Americans. The passage of the act also laid the foundation for laws protecting women, immigrants, veterans, and members of the LGBTQ community.

Jun 24, 2024 | theskanner.com | Linda Bilmes |Cornell Brooks

Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School and Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School Published: 24 June 2024 Though America has yet to begin compensating Black Americans for past and ongoing racial harms, our new research published in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal in June 2024, refutes one of the key arguments against making reparation payments – that they would be too difficult and expensive for the federal government to administer.

Jun 22, 2024 | bridgedetroit.com | Linda Bilmes |Cornell Brooks |Christine Ferretti

As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, legislation for a commission to study reparations for harms resulting from the enslavement of nearly 4 million people has languished in Congress for more than 30 years.

Jun 21, 2024 | reparationscomm.org | Linda Bilmes |Cornell Brooks

By Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks, The Conversation —As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, legislation for a commission to study reparations for harms resulting from the enslavement of nearly 4 million people has languished in Congress for more than 30 years.