Children’s entertainer Ms Rachel expressed support for reparations in a social-media post that shared a quotation from writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. The post has drawn attention because it places a prominent online children’s creator within a long-running and politically contentious debate about racial justice in the United States.

The article identifies Coates’s writing as the basis for Ms Rachel’s message, linking reparations to historic and continuing racial inequality. The supplied text does not include Ms Rachel’s full remarks, the exact quotation, or any response from her representatives, so the scope and reaction to the post are unclear.