What could reparations look like in Boston?

GBH News is out with a new podcast that asks a big question: What Is Owed? On this week’s episode of Basic Black, host Phillip Martin talked about the podcast, which dives into what reparations might look like in Boston, with GBH News Politics Reporter and Host Saraya Wintersmith, GBH News Senior Podcast Producer Jerome Campbell, historian Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson of Wellesley College, and Boston Task Force on Reparations member George “Chip” Greenidge. The podcast dives into Boston’s history of slavery and discrimination and examines what could come of the city’s Task Force on Reparations. “The ‘why?’ is looking at the work that the City Council put forth in 2022, calling for the task force. It came out of this question of, if reparations is going to happen in Boston, what would it look like?” said Campbell. The push for reparations is picking up steam across the country, with Illinois, California, and New York launching task forces to study reparations. But it is unpopular among white Americans: a 2022 Pew Research Center study found that 18% of white Americans support reparations for descendants of enslaved people in the U.S., compared to 77% of Black Americans. Carter Jackson, Associate Professor...