Rally for reparations.

• Position: On the Line

Washington, D.C.

Demonstrators demanding reparations for slavery gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on August 17. "We will get [reparations] by contacting every single member of the House of Representatives, every single member of the Senate," Rep-resentative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan, told the crowd, according to The Washington Post.

Other action on the reparations front includes a lawsuit by a group of slave descendants who are suing three companies, claiming they--or their...