01/20/2026
Happy Book Birthday! ✨
Today I’m celebrating the release of Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past by Dorothy A. Brown. This is a powerful, clear-eyed, and deeply necessary read.
Thank you to for the opportunity to read. This is one of the most thorough arguments I’ve read on how the federal government and state courts have intentionally worked to sanction the theft of black wealth.
This book reminds us that reparations are not a radical idea pulled from thin air. They are woven into U.S. history itself. From compensating slaveholders after emancipation to settlements paid to other harmed communities, the precedent has always existed.
The question Brown presses us to sit with is simple and searing: if restitution has been possible before, why has it been denied to Black Americans for so long?
Professor Brown maps a legal and historical path forward, grounding the fight for reparations in facts, law, and accountability. This is a book that asks us to imagine (and demand) a more honest America.
Check it out, ya’ll. Necesssary reading.
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