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During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a needed political boost that helped garner .

In , a historic reparations task force concluded painstaking research and surveys with a clear mandate to move forward with compensation for Black people. And, a year ago, 大象传媒 published a series of deeply reported stories called Realizing Reparations. 

But a whitelash to the movement for racial justice has helped reelect Donald Trump, who set to work immediately dismantling federal government programs for racial equity. 

Given this new context, we have to ask: Where does the movement for reparations stand now? 鈥淩eparations is our North Star for equity, providing a counterweight against a backslide into white supremacy,鈥� writes economist Kyle Moore in . 鈥淔ixing our eyes on rectifying our greatest historical wrongs and committing to preventing those atrocities and injustices from ever happening again grounds us in hopeful possibility.鈥� 

Moore is an economist with the at the . He spoke with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about where the reparations movement stands in 2025.