Revisiting the Moynihan Report

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 17, 2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer for The Atlantic and the author of Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015), continues the conversation about reparations in revisiting “the Moynihan report,” saying it was actually an argument for more support for black men, robbed of livelihoods by slavery and repression. Instead, mass incarceration "solved" the problem with its lasting harm to the black family.

→ Read More: You can find Ta-Nehisi Coates' multi-part cover story for The Atlantic right here.

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