Why Reparations is an Election 2024 Issue

Feb 22, 2024 As the 2024 presidential election season is in full swing and states across the nation are starting to hold their primaries, abortion access and the Israeli genocide in Gaza are front and center. But other issues of crucial importance to the U.S. electorate, such as reparations for Black Americans, are getting far less attention.  Edgar Villanueva, who champions the issue of reparations, is author of the best-selling book Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance and founder and CEO of the Decolonizing Wealth Project and its fund, Liberated Capital. He spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about reparations entering the 2024 elections discourse. Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up:...