A Case for Reparations

Washington Post writer Alyssa Rosenberg introduces her article "Culture Change and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Case for Reparations this way: "In 'The Case for Reparations,' the... cover story of the June issue of the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates makes a painstaking argument that the gap in wealth, achievement, and a wide range of health and wellbeing outcomes between black and white Americans is the result of deliberate policy decisions. Those decisions, he says, lead to an inevitable conclusion: “An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future,” Coates writes. “More important than any single check cut to any African American, the payment of reparations would represent America’s maturation out of the childhood myth of its innocence into a wisdom worthy of its founders.”
Your task over the next week is to read Mr. Coates's article. Take notes as you read. Write down key facts, points where you agree with Mr. Coates's assertions, points where you disagree, and questions that you may have. 
Here is how you should plan your homework for the week:
Monday night-Read Sections I, II, III
Tuesday night-Read Sections IV, V, VI
Wednesday night-Read Sections VII, VIII, IX, X
Here is the link to the ONLINE version that has a lot of helpful interactive features.
Here is a link to a printable version if that is more useful to you.