Closer Look continues with its analysis of the Fulton County Reparations Task Force’s Harm Report. The eye-opening, over 600-page report details the harms suffered by Black people who were enslaved or lived during the Jim Crow era. Today, we’re also joined by WABE reporter DorMiya Vance for a discussion about what reparations Fulton County might owe for massacre and mass incarceration. Click here to read the full report.
Guests:
Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado - Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and the Director of Public History and Historic Preservation at Morehouse College and chair of the Fulton Reparations Task Force
Dr. Amanda Meng - Georgia Tech research scientist who also serves as the task force secretary and representing Fulton County District 3
Ann Hill Bond - member Task Force Research Committee
John Wright - researcher
WABE reporter DorMiya Vance

The challenges of meeting Atlanta’s affordable housing goal; AileyCamp Atlanta promotes youth development through the arts
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Reviewing the findings of Fulton County’s Reparations Task Force Harm Report
51:01

“Closer Look’s” Juneteenth special examines Black progress as America turns 250
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