ADOS, or the American Descendants of Slaves, started as a hashtag demanding reparations, but it has become a source for contention in the Black community.

Lawson describes ADOS as a loosely formed confederation of people interested in reparations and political advocacy that has grown to about 60 in number in Atlanta.

The group, which grew out of the hashtag #ADOS created by Moore and Carnell, a resident of Atlanta, believes among other things that there should be set-asides for American Descendants of Slavery ...

To the ADOS community, to be a proper African American means to claim the African heritage through their ancestors from American slavery and the Americanness gained through Emancipation.

ADOS organizers put forth a "Black Agenda," which includes more federal lending to black-owned businesses, substantially increasing funding for historically black colleges and universities and ...

*It has been an explosive week for the grassroots hashtag movement #ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery), an article came out on theintercept.com pushing back against the unfounded accusation ...

Pan-Africanists argue that reparations should be focused on building independent Black institutions, while ADOS advocates for lineage-based reparations and integration into the American mainstream.