During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a ...

Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist dismissed reparations as “yesterday’s fad,” praising Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for vetoing a bill that would have created a state commission to study them.

The search to better understand his roots took Paul Thomas Harper to his late grandmother’s attic in St. Paul, Minnesota. There, among the letters and photographs, he found clues that, once plugged ...

On Tuesday, First Repair hosted a panel discussion between: Executive Director Robin Rue Simmons, Chair of Michigan Democratic Black Caucus Keith Williams, California Reparations Task Force Member Dr.

The D.C. Council passed a reparations bill this week that would compensate Black Washingtonians who are descendants of slaves or have been affected by Jim Crow-era policies, but Mayor Muriel Bowser ...

California had the country believe that it was all in about giving reparations to its Black residents, repairing the damage caused by years of systemic racism. Everyone involved knew the weight that ...

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, ...

(NEW YORK) — Universities across the country are studying their relationship to slavery and are being called on by students to address their histories by making symbolic and financial reparations.

The city of Boston has taken up the monumental task of trying to heal the racial inequalities caused by 400 years of slavery. Two years ago, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, created the Task Force on ...

A protester holds a sign that reads in French, “Restitution and Reparations for Haiti” as then-French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech outside the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti ...

Considered the first attempt by a U.S. city to pay reparations to its Black residents, Evanston’s reparations program approaches its fourth year of existence with its future uncertain after the ...