"Professor advocates for UN tribunal to demand $5M reparations for African Americans from US"

A group of African American academics, led by Howard University professor Justin Hansford, is pushing for a UN tribunal to make the US pay $5 million to black citizens for slavery-era abuses. The effort underscores how reparation payouts are unpopular among white American taxpayers and have little chance of becoming federal law, leaving advocates scrambling for a workaround. The US mission to the UN does not officially support the tribunal, but Hansford said US diplomats at the mission had been "supportive overall." Critics say reparations cost too much, are unfair, and will sow divisions between winners and losers.