
What is Owed?
Claim This Podcastby GBH News
Podcast Overview
<p>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 debate is layered in history. It was here that slavery was first legalized in the American colonies; it was here that founders of American independence are buried alongside the Black people they enslaved; and it was here that legislation was introduced in the 1980s that became the model of a national bill calling for reparations - a bill that is still on agenda in the U.S Congress. </p><p><br></p><p>In “What Is Owed?”, a 7-part podcast, GBH News political reporter Saraya Wintersmith seeks to understand what reparations might look like in one of the oldest cities in America, uncovering the lessons for a successful reparations framework through the stories of its architects, past and present.</p>
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2/1/2024
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June 19, 2024
Episode 8 - What Could Boston Look Like After Reparations?
<p>GBH News and The Emancipator — a digital magazine that reimagines the nation’s first abolitionist newspapers for a new day — convened a discussion to consider how Boston might change in the decades after reparations are enacted.</p>

March 28, 2024
Episode 7 - More Than “40 acres”
<p>The conversation about reparations can often be explained in terms of cash payments, but our reporting has been enriched by so many different forms of repair that we wanted to explore. We talk to people who are thinking about broader forms of reparation as a way to respond to specific harms endured by Boston’s Black residents long after slavery ended.</p>

March 21, 2024
Episode 6 - That Reluctant Conversation
<p>We’re talking about the “R” words. Race. And Reparations </p>
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- What is What is Owed??
<p>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 debate is layered in history. It was here that slavery was first legalized in the American colonies; it was here that founders of American independence are buried alongside the Black people they enslaved; and it was here that legislation was introduced in the 1980s that became the model of a national bill calling for reparations - a bill that is still on agenda in the U.S Congress. </p><p><br></p><p>In “What Is Owed?”, a 7-part podcast, GBH News political reporter Saraya Wintersmith seeks to understand what reparations might look like in one of the oldest cities in America, uncovering the lessons for a successful reparations framework through the stories of its architects, past and present.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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