As a New York commission meets this year to address the state’s “legacy of slavery,” the next front of the reparations battle could be the extent to which the private sector — especially long-standing ...

The docuseries features one Black and one white filmmaker as they travel back to the American South. The King Center for Southern Studies at Mercer University has a new documentary on pursuing ...

The fight for reparations for formerly enslaved people in the United States has been brewing for centuries. But in recent years, the push to provide reparations to Black Americans has been heating up.

This Q&A seeks to answer some common questions about reparations for Black people in the United States as a remedy for enslavement and its legacies, as a matter of human rights. 1. What are ...

I couldn’t help it. Curiosity got the best of me: I had to look up the latest presidential rankings in the 2022 edition of The World Almanac and Book of Facts. My eyes scrolled down from the top of ...

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their countries. In Jamaica, which became a ...

They were children when their families’ Palm Springs homes were bulldozed and burned as part of the systematic destruction of a community. Now they’re in their 60s or older, and their loss is finally ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists ...

The idea of giving Black people reparations for slavery dates back to right after the end of the Civil War (think 40 acres and a mule). For decades, it's mostly been an idea debated outside the ...

Louis Weathers had a stable job and was married when he decided to buy a home in the Chicago suburb of Evanston in 1959 – but high interest rates and White real estate agents who seemed adamant about ...

Governments attending the Africa-CARICOM Summit should closely work with civil society and affected communities to develop a human rights-based approach to reparations, Human Rights Watch said today.