![Law School Professor Randall L. Kennedy and Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks spoke Friday at the IOP Forum about the need for reparations.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/randall-l-kennedy-and-professor-cornell-brooks-reparations-910x512-1.jpg)
By Allison G. Lee and Contributing Writer Kevin A. Simauchi — Panelists at a Harvard Kennedy School event Friday urged the U.S. government to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves, calling it a moral responsibility. Harvard Law School Professor Randall L. Kennedy and Cornell W. Brooks, the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spoke to a crowd of roughly 100 at the event.…