One of President Biden’s recent nominees to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors has repeatedly called for black Americans to receive reparations for years of economic discrimination and slavery, according to a report on Monday. Biden announced the nomination of Lisa Cook, a Michigan State University economics professor, on Jan. 14. If confirmed, Cook would be the first black woman to be part of the seven-person board. “Everybody benefited from slavery. Everybody,” Cook said in a September 2020 “EconTalk” podcast, Fox Business reported.
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