Before You Go

Before You Go: A Final Case for Reparations by the Late Rep. John Conyers, Jr.

Episode Summary

Co-Host Nicole Franklin was one of the last journalists to interview the late Representative John Conyers, Jr. They talked about the Congressman's life long crusade to turn his H.R. 40 bill on African American reparations into law.

Episode Notes

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take listeners back to an August 2018 interview Nicole conducted with Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Michigan) and his career crusade to establish the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. During the Congressman's lifetime, which the Congressman spent nearly three decades on a relentless campaign, the H.R. 40 Bill never made it out of Committee.  In one of his final interviews, Rep. Conyers reflects on what reparations for African Americans would achieve and how he realized early on the journey it would take to get there.