Los Angeles - A lawsuit against the US government by some of the country's leading lawyers and a daily mass lobby of Congress are two of the strategies being planned in the long-running battle for reparations to black Americans for centuries of slavery, Duncan Campbell reports.
Mr Johnnie Cochrane, who defended O.J. Simpson, is a member of the legal team which is examining the possibility of making the US government compensate the descendants of slaves. The issue of reparations has been the subject of intermittent debate in the US for nearly 150 years. But now proponents of the compensation scheme say there is enough public support for action.