At Wednesday’s House hearing on reparations, Democratic witness Ta-Nehisi Coates, author and columnist who wrote a widely-referenced article for The Atlantic that is often credited for the renewed ...

On Juneteenth in 2019, lawmakers met with Black activists and scholars to discuss H.R. 40—a bill to create a reparations commission to examine the impact of slavery and the possibility of compensation ...

WASHINGTON — The debate over reparations for descendants of slaves catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover and others for lawmakers ...

Reparations for slavery has long been a topic bubbling across sociopolitical spheres. Obviously, nothing has ever come of these discussions—at least not for the descendants of enslaved Africans. Now ...

SACRAMENTO — A task force set to discuss and issue recommendations about California’s debt to the descendants of enslaved people kicked off a two-day public hearing Friday — and it was clear that ...

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The New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies (NYSCCRR) hosted a public hearing to address the effects of slavery and systemic discrimination. The commission aims to develop policy ...

Emotions came to a head during a public hearing on California’s reparations task force Saturday, when two men began to argue and had to be separated. While the argument tipped into more personal ...

URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — The State of Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission hosted a public hearing on the University of Illinois campus Saturday. Professors, researchers and local ...

About 50 Evanston and Chicago community members chanted “Repair the damage” in unison at Norris University Center during the Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Public Hearing ...