Activist leaders in Boston demanding "White churches" pay reparations to the city's Black community "is really absurd," said a pastor from the South Side of Chicago. "They're playing on people's guilt ...

A California Democrat held back tears earlier this month when a Republican lawmaker said it would be unfair to make Asians and Latinos pay slavery reparations to African-Americans. The exchange ...

Olympia Mayor Dontae Payne says the U.S. government has a debt to pay to the descendants of enslaved people. He said the promise of 40 acres and a mule was never fulfilled after the Civil War, and it ...

California legislators could soon approve billions of dollars in reparations for Black residents, but past restitution programs in the state suggest that those efforts can be challenging to execute.

Reparations to descendants of slaves has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years, and two Harvard University professors argue federal reparations would be in line with how the government handles ...

A protester in Jamaica holds a sign during a rally to demand that the United Kingdom make reparations for slavery - GILBERT BELLAMY/Reuters Caribbean nations are set to demand that Britain make ...

Any New York state reparations legislation will be “vigorously challenged in federal court,” the reformer behind the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to block affirmative action in higher education, ...

For more than 100 years, Black Americans have been seeking reparations as compensation for centuries of free, Black labor. And while most are familiar with the 1865 initiative that gave slaves “forty ...

For Juneteenth 2023, justice educator Ericka Hart had some choice words for white and non-Black people of color on what they can do to support Black people on this federal holiday. Her solution?

History is the study of past events. The operative word is “past.” We can’t go back and help those people who in the past have suffered injustice. Probably every ethnic group on the planet has ...

World War I crippled Germany. The war took the lives of 3 million Germans, and the country lay in ruins. The victorious powers blamed Germany exclusively for the war. In the Treaty of Versailles, they ...