; (2) the de jure and de facto discrimination against freed slaves and their descendants from the end of the Civil War to the present, including economic, political, educational, and social discrimination; (3) the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery and the discrimination described in paragraphs (1) and (2) on living African Americans and on society in the United States; (4) the manner in which textual and digital instructional resources and technologies are being used to deny the inhumanity of slavery and the crime against humanity of people of African descent in the United States; (5) the role of Northern complicity in the Southern based institution of slavery; (6) the direct benefits to societal institutions, public and private, including higher education, corporations, religious, and associational; (7) and thus, recommend appropriate ways to educate the American public of the Commission’s findings to advance racial healing, understanding, and transformation; (8) and thus, recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Commission’s findings on the matters described in paragraphs (1) through (7); and (9) submit to the Congress the results of such examination, together with such recommendations. 3. Establishment and duties (a) Establishment There is established in the legislative branch the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the Commission ). (b) Duties The Commission shall perform the following duties: (1) Identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery which existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States from 1619 through 1865. The Commission’s documentation and examination shall include facts related to— (A) the capture and procurement of Africans