In 2021, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, became the first American city to offer reparations to its eligible African American residents. Now, a conservative organization has filed a lawsuit ...

The number is as staggering as it is undeniable. A minute fraction of the harms of the trans-Atlantic slave crimes is ...

The fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent closed with calls for reparations for Haiti on the ...

Against this charged backdrop, Maryland stands on the cusp of reigniting a fiercely emotional debate over reparations for ...

Maryland lawmakers overrode Gov. Wes Moore’s vetoes to revive reparations, climate change and data center impact studies ...

On Juneteenth in 2023, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a Newark-based advocacy group, launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by ...

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

A memorial to Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach. The city of Manhattan Beach used eminent domain in 1924 to drive out a seaside resort for Black guests owned by Willa and Charles Bruce. (Jay L.

can you imagine a child like me watching this hearing this feeling, this fear my granddad decided that, hey, we're gonna have to leave because they're gonna kill us and burn up everything in Ochoa in ...

From criminal justice reform to how to best teach American history, race continues to be one of the most contentious issues in American politics. On one side of this volatile debate, a number of ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture shows exhibits of slavery, a lack of generational wealth and other economic discrimination that some states and cities are using to call for ...

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by the legacy of slavery in the Garden State. The New ...