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What is Owed?

What is Owed?

By: GBH News
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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.


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.

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Episodes
  • What Could Boston Look Like After Reparations?

    What Could Boston Look Like After Reparations?
    Apr 4 2024

    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.
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    41 mins
  • Meanwhile, Back in Boston

    Meanwhile, Back in Boston
    Mar 28 2024

    Boston’s Mayor and members of the reparations task force speak about the progress made so far, the challenges going forward, and what they think reparations could actually look like.

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    Credits:

    Host, Producer and Writer: Saraya Wintersmith

    Senior Producer: Jerome Campbell

    Editor: Paul Singer

    Editorial Assistant: Mara Mellits

    Production oversight: Lee Hill

    Mixing and Sound Design: David Goodman & Gary Mott

    Theme Song and original music: Malik Williams

    Artwork: Mamie-Hawa Bawoh & Matt Welch

    Project Manager: Meiqian He

    Consulting Producer and Head of GBH Podcasts: Devin Maverick Robins
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    35 mins
  • That Reluctant Conversation

    That Reluctant Conversation
    Mar 21 2024

    We’re talking about the “R” words. Race. And Reparations. With Ibram X. Kendi, founder and director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

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    Credits:

    Host, Producer and Writer: Saraya Wintersmith

    Senior Producer: Jerome Campbell

    Editor: Paul Singer

    Editorial Assistant: Mara Mellits

    Production oversight: Lee Hill

    Mixing and Sound Design: David Goodman & Gary Mott

    Theme Song and original music: Malik Williams

    Artwork: Mamie-Hawa Bawoh & Matt Welch

    Project Manager: Meiqian He

    Consulting Producer and Head of GBH Podcasts: Devin Maverick Robins
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    28 mins
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