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

“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 ...

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 ...

In 2021, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, became the first American city to offer reparations to its eligible African American residents. Now, a conservative organization has filed a lawsuit ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Evanston, Illinois' $25,000 reparations payments to 44 Black residents raise constitutional questions and practical concerns ...

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 ...

Tucked inside Washington State's newly approved $78 billion budget for 2025-2026 is a historic move: For the first time, the state will fund a study to explore reparations for the descendants of ...

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 ...