At festival in Kenya, artists and writers discuss role arts can play in continent’s growing push for redress over colonial crimes ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California made history in 2020 with the creation of the nation's first state-level task force to study and develop reparations for the descendants of enslaved African Americans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2021, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, became the first American city to offer reparations to its eligible African ...

Juneteenth has been celebrated in its home state of Texas since 1866, but it wouldn’t become a nationwide holiday until 2021 as racial tensions spiked in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.

“Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade:” A Transnational and Comparative History, 2nd. Ed., by Ana Lucia Araujo. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 344 pages. $31.45. (paperback). Slavery was ...

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would ...

RECOMMENDATIONS. FOR THE HISTORIC STATEHOUSE WITH TRIBUTES TO MARYLAND FREEDOM FIGHTERS LIKE FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HARRIET TUBMAN IS MAKING HISTORY AGAIN. LAWMAKERS PUT A REPARATIONS BILL ON THE ...

Morris Griffin, wearing a sign that says “reparations now,” waits in a line to speak during public comment at a 2023 meeting of the California Reparations Task Force, held at the California ...

Illinois reparations commission released comprehensive report titled "Taking Account" documenting racial injustice from ...

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 ...

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 ...