What is Owed?
What is Owed? Podcast
1) Episode 1 - When a City Tries to Heal Itself
Boston, a city entrenched in the history of the American Revolution, creates a task force to explore the city’s history of slavery and economic discrimination and to consider reparations for Black cit...Show More
2) Episode 6 - That Reluctant Conversation
We’re talking about the “R” words. Race. And Reparations
3) Episode 2 - Bill Owens: Boston’s Reparations Trailblazer
We look back at the history of efforts in Boston to explore reparations, particularly through the lens of Sen. Bill Owens, the first Black member of the Massachusetts Senate. At the end of the 1980s, ...Show More
4) Introducing What Is Owed?
Boston - like many cities around the US - has begun to wrestle with the notion of paying reparations to Black people to make up for 400 years of enslavement and economic exclusion. But in Boston, this...Show More