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 ...

A new report from a blue state’s reparations commission expounded on “nine broad categories of harm” in calling for lawmakers ...

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

On Juneteenth in 2023, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a Newark-based advocacy group, launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by ...

The conversation of reparations has been the focus of advocates for years but recently highlighted as more conversations have occurred at the state level, especially in Illinois.

Rev. Robert Turner, the pastor who has walked from Baltimore to the White House for 40 months, has concluded his monthly treks to bring attention to the need for federal reparations. Turner recently ...

Evanston, Illinois' $25,000 reparations payments to 44 Black residents raise constitutional questions and practical concerns about race-based compensation programs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A memorial to Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach. The city of Manhattan Beach used eminent domain in 1924 to drive out a seaside ...

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ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Reparations Commission has delivered their final report to Mayor Tishaura Jones. For the past year and a half, they’ve held 27 listening sessions all across the city. The ...

“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 ...

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 ...