Fulton County’s Reparations Task Force has worked since 2023 to research and account for the harms done to Black people who were enslaved there or lived during the Jim Crow era.
The group now has an official “Harm Report,” and one of their findings shows as much as around $900 billion in today’s dollars in stolen labor over a decade of slavery in Fulton.
Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, a professor of Africana Studies at Morehouse College, was appointed chair of the county-based task force after it was established in 2021.
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