The battle for reparations for Black Americans has been raging since the civil war. And in recent years that fight has been heating-up across the country. There is a lot to keep-up with, which is why ...
In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “The Case for Reparations” went viral. Tracing everything from the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing ...
Born as a white girl in the segregated South, I’ve spent most of my adulthood as a Jewish woman in Berlin. This double perspective has fueled my resolve to explore America’s fraught relationship with ...
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council of Canada for research on her book, Reparations to Africa, and related scholarly articles, on which ...
If you feel like you’re hearing more about slavery reparations, it’s not your imagination. The widespread protests against police brutality and racial injustice following the death of George Floyd ...
In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “The Case for Reparations” went viral. Tracing everything from the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing ...
There have been renewed calls in support of reparations for Black Americans following recent protests against police brutality and amid the economic crisis of the coronavirus. While the idea goes back ...
Reparations legislation could soon be headed to the House floor for the first time in more than three decades. Now comes the hard part. Wednesday night, the House Judiciary Committee voted to bring ...
Alfred L. Brophy is the Judge John J. Parker distinguished professor of law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of "Reparations Pro and Con." His study of proslavery ...
Juneteenth—the annual celebration of when enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom—brought two hearings this year on Capitol Hill. The first was widely covered. The House Judiciary Committee ...
After COP26, renewed focus has been placed on campaigners across the globe calling for “climate reparations ” to be given to the Global South by the Global North—but what does this mean? How can ...