Actor Danny Glover and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates are heading to Congress to testify about reparations for the descendants of slaves.
Glover, 72, is the star of the “Lethal Weapon” film series among other movies and shows. Coates, 43, is an author and journalist who penned the “The Case for Reparations,” a 2014 essay in The Atlantic. The piece became a touchstone for the cause and helped push the matter into the national discourse.
The hearing will be held Wednesday in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The goal of the hearing is to “examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she supports a study on reparations and other more liberal lawmakers have said they support a form of reparations. Some of the Democratic presidential contenders broached the issue as well, with most dancing around specifics about what reparations would entail.
