30 years may have passed, but our fight persists. In this 1995 interview, Nkechi Taifa spoke to the need for reparations and also highlighted many of the systemic challenges in the Black community back then that still exist today.

The President wants to erase the telling of our history at the Smithsonian. This undermines a key component #reparations, Reckoning. As Leah Wright Rigeur shares, “ it tells a story that is very much about a quest for democracy and the way that Americans built this country.”