The John Conyers Reparations legislation had been stuck in the House Committee stage since 1989, and could have been strenuously advocated for by the community, the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights groups like the NAACP and National Urban League, when a Black-led administration was in power, and for the two years that Democrats controlled Congress.
Reparations could have gotten the community push 2008 - 2016 that Health Care reform and Gay Marriage received from its advocates.
The online-based push for it did not happen until Trump of all people ran for, and took office in 2016. Amazing.