this article might be really long and i'm sure you're atrociously lazy but it's excellent and a really important bit of journalism
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

there's also this little follow-up too
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations-an-intellectual-autopsy/371125/

i'd be very interested to see how much of this applies to Britain as there are undoubtedly similarities, even if slavery was never as integral as it was in the US. i feel almost entirely ignorant about the history of race/racism in Britain so if anyone can add anything about it in relation to this it'd be brilliant, like in terms of housing policy etc.