Recognizing that the United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the crime of enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.

• Families and communities: Would authorize direct monetary payments and targeted benefits to repair harms to housing, health, education, environment, and economic stability. It would also support property restoration where covenants or eminent domain dispossessed Black owners.
• Education and cultural preservation: Would provide free education for students at historically Black colleges and universities who serve Black communities, fund curricula on slavery and its legacies, and fund markers, burial ground restorations, and preservation of cultural sites.
• Legal, civic, and institutional reforms: Would restore voting rights for formerly and currently incarcerated people, recommend repealing the Thirteenth Amendment punishment clause, pursue exonerations and pardons, and back creation of commissions such as H.R. 40 and a Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation.

*Would require large federal expenditures, with scholars cited in the bill estimating at least $16 trillion.*