Why did a bill to create a state reparations agency, the centerpiece of California’s initial attempt to introduce legislation to repair harm endured by Black Californians, fail? SB 1403 would have ...

Located near Hayward in Alameda County, Russell City was once home to mostly Black, Latino and poor white families boxed out of other Bay Area neighborhoods by redlining and the cost of living. But in ...

“We know that this is but a scratch in the surface of multiple generations of harm,” said Providence Mayor Brett Smiley PROVIDENCE — Two years after the City of Providence formally apologized for its ...

A House Democrat plans to introduce a resolution calling for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars on reparations for Black Americans this week. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., plans to introduce the ...

The search to better understand his roots took Paul Thomas Harper to his late grandmother’s attic in St. Paul, Minnesota. There, among the letters and photographs, he found clues that, once plugged ...

City lawmakers passed a controversial bill Thursday to create a reparations task force in New York City — which could lead to proposals to spend billions in taxpayer money as compensation for slavery ...

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., held back tears as she officially introduced H.R. 40, legislation that has been advocated in Congress for more than 30 years. “It is an honor,” Pressley said during ...

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Some of the opposition to reparations is rooted in ignorance. And that is likely to become more widespread given that support for book bans has reached the federal level. Eugene Scott is a journalist.

The decision on a reparations loan for Ukraine secured by frozen Russian assets in Europe is being delayed. Read below how critical this is for a country at war, and whether there are any alternatives ...

LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Caribbean leaders hope that Britain under its new Labour government might shift its long-standing position on slavery reparations and agree to discuss how to address past ...