• Episode 2 - Bill Owens: Boston’s Reparations Trailblazer

  • Feb 22 2024
  • Length: 34 mins
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Episode 2 - Bill Owens: Boston’s Reparations Trailblazer

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  • We look back at the history of efforts in Boston to explore reparations, particularly through the lens of Sen. Bill Owens, the first Black member of the Massachusetts Senate. At the end of the 1980s, Owens, inspired by activism he had seen in Detroit, introduced a bill to pay reparations to Black descendants of enslaved people. That bill is credited as being a model for national legislation introduced by Rep. John Conyers in every session of the U.S. Congress since 1989 to create a national commission on reparations.

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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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