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 ...

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

Way to fight back, Rep. Pressley! Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) announced plans to reintroduce H.R. 40, also known as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans ...

When Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination in 2020, he said the nation was issuing "the most compelling call for racial justice since the '60s." Months later after winning the presidency, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 05: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks to supporters and employees of the U.S. Agency for International ...

Cincinnati NAACP President David Whitehead urged reparations support while Santa Clara County explores compensation and ...

They've set up a protest site on the Ellipse near the White House. It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on ...

I’ve spent my adult life advocating for reparations, starting over 20 years ago as a student calling on the University of Alabama to honor the memory of two known enslaved people, Jack and Boysey, ...

FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is moving to have federal funds blocked to any state or local area that enacts policies regarding slavery reparations. It comes in response to Washington's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White House senio­r advis­er Steph­en Mille­r. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images) “Black Americans’ fight for true ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in October hosted a meeting of a state-supported reparations committee, where two of its professors and one of its researchers advocated in favor of ...