This week, the Maryland House of Delegates overwhelmingly voted to create a commission to study and recommend potential reparations for slavery and diagnose the impacts of centuries-long racial injustice in the state.

Passed by a party-line vote of 101-36 on Wednesday, the Maryland Reparations Commission now heads to Democrat Gov. Wes Moore’s desk for consideration.

The commission plans to “study and make recommendations relating to appropriate benefits to be made to individuals whose ancestors were enslaved in the State or were impacted by certain inequitable government policies.”

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