San Francisco’s “Reparations Plan,” signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie late last year, intends to correct historic ills, but good ...

University of the West Indies history Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles spoke about reparations for chattel slavery in the postcolonial Americas at a Tuesday event sponsored by Northwestern’s Buffett Institute ...

Signed into law by Gov. Bob Ferguson in May, the measure gives Washington the authority to examine how it might address the lasting impacts of slavery. Tucked inside Washington State’s newly approved ...

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 ...

Rep. Shri Thanedar introduced a federal reparations bill to create a commission studying land distribution for descendants of ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 22, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. On March 22, 1946, Chicago was freely ...

*Ghana is preparing to bring one of the world’s most consequential unresolved debates to the United Nations General Assembly.

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 ...

Torrey Snow is correct to realize that the discussion of slavery in our country is a complex issue and debate over reparations is bound to be divisive (“What’s lost in the reparations debate,” Dec. 17 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robin Rue Simmons, alderwoman of Evanston's 5th Ward, poses for a portrait holding a photograph of her mother, aunt and ...

The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally. The headline: “House Dems reintroduce reparations legislation: ‘We refuse to be silent.’ ...

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 ...