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For this issue, a look at Nikole Hannah-Jones’s argument that if black lives are to truly matter in America, the nation must finally pay its debts. CreditCredit...Video by HunterGatherer

Gail Bichler, design director: “In this week’s cover story, Nikole Hannah-Jones argues that we must move beyond slogans and into a conversation about reparations for black Americans. Bobby Martin hand-painted the simple but powerful words at the article’s heart, ‘What Is Owed,’ in the yellow used on the streets in the Black Lives Matter movement.”