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DeRay Mckesson: Reparations are 'not a radical thing'
Activist and author DeRay Mckesson spent 400 days on the streets as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2014, after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri.
Here he talks about why America's politicians should be offering reparations for slavery - an apology and repayment to black Americans whose ancestors were forced into the slave trade - and the impact of the Black Lives Matter protests.
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