The Debt Is Still Owed: Why America Must Pay Reparations to Black Americans (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798297188471)

America has not paid its debt. This book explains why it must.

For over four centuries, Black Americans have been forced to build a nation that denied them the freedom, rights, and wealth it claimed to offer. From slavery and convict leasing to redlining, racist policing, and mass incarceration, the harm has been relentless-and the damage remains.

The Debt Is Still Owed is a bold and necessary work that lays out the historical, legal, and moral case for reparations. A.B. Clark examines how the United States profited from Black suffering and systematically denied Black families access to the wealth they helped create. With clear analysis and deep historical grounding, this book shows why reparations are not charity, not optional, and not impossible. They are a long-overdue obligation.

More than just a critique, this is a roadmap for repair. It explores how reparations could be structured, who should receive them, and what a repaired America could look like if justice were finally delivered.

This is not just about the past. It is about the kind of nation we are willing to become.