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    2020 Democrats Wrestle With A Big Question: What Are Reparations?

    Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Marianne Williamson and Elizabeth Warren all support the idea of compensation for past discrimination. But the details are creating a more complex debate.
    by Danielle Kurtzleben Mar 01, 2019 3 minutes
    Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders, seen at a South Carolina NAACP march in January, are two of the 2020 presidential candidates pressed on the issue of reparations this week.

    Several Democratic candidates have been quick to embrace reparations recently. Bernie Sanders is more cautious.

    At a CNN town hall on Monday, a woman asked Sanders about his view on reparations, and at first he talked about trying to "put resources into distressed communities and improve lives for those people who have been hurt from the legacy of slavery."

    Moderator Wolf Blitzer pushed him for a more direct response, noting that multiple presidential candidates have said they support reparations. Sanders answered the question with his own question — one that is now hanging over the

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