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Ta-Nehisi Coates told the panel "it's impossible to imagine America without the inheritance of slavery."

The moral case for reparations for descendants of slaves is an easy one, but the practical one is much harder.

Writer and Baltimore native, Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor, Danny Glover are set to testify before a House panel on the topic of reparations for slavery.

If Sharpton was in the employ of the president’s re-election campaign, he couldn’t have done it a bigger favor or caused greater damage for Democrats.

For some of us, reparations, a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, is a new and uncomfortable issue. It raises this question: What does the U.S. owe for the years it benefited from the enslavement of people from Africa, and then subjugated them to the lowest level on a caste system?

As Martin O'Malley sets out on an ambitious campaign for president, he is courting the type of young voters who fueled Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012. He relies on words like "this generation" and "new leadership" to make a not-so-subtle point about his opponents.

Twelve members of the House of Representative Judiciary Committed issued a demand in a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, strongly requesting that the league exercise transparency regarding the Ray Rice domestic violence investigation.