What is Owed?

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Introducing: What Is Owed?

Boston - like many cities around the US - has begun to wrestle with the notion of paying reparations to Black people to make up for 400 years of enslavement and economic exclusion. But in Boston, this debate is layered in history. It was here that slavery was first legalized in the American colonies; it was here that founders of American independence are buried alongside the Black people they enslaved; and it was here that legislation was introduced in the 1980s that became the model of a national bill calling for reparations - a bill that is still on agenda in the U.S Congress. In “What Is Owed?”, a new 7-part podcast, GBH News political reporter Saraya Wintersmith seeks to understand what reparations might look like in one of the oldest cities in America, uncovering the lessons for a successful reparations framework through the stories of its architects, past and present. ——- 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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  What Could Boston Look Like After Reparations?

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  Meanwhile, Back in Boston

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  That Reluctant Conversation

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  A Midwest Experiment

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  The Government’s Burden

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  Defining the Debt

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  Bill Owens: Boston’s Reparations Trailblazer

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  When a City Tries to Heal Itself