"That tells Black America exactly whose pain the government is willing to recognize, how and why," Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter ...

It wasn’t until his junior year of college that civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons learned about a devastating massacre that took place in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — Despite slim chances of passage and against the backdrop of anti-DEI efforts, some congressional Democrats continue ...

When descendants of enslaved Africans ask America to discuss reparations seriously, suddenly the country plays broke ...

A House Democrat plans to introduce a resolution calling for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars on reparations for Black Americans this week. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., plans to introduce the ...

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.

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would ...

Mayor Quinton Lucas convened a Commission on Reparations back in May 2023, with the goal of producing recommendations on how the city could repair harms from racism. Two years later, much of that work ...

Members of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission pushed back against Gov. Wes Moore’s objection to creating a reparations commission, asserting that their work ties directly to the ...

“Will the next mayor treat reparations as the moral and economic necessity that it is, or let this moment pass, despite the will of the people?” Racial equity legislation on the mayor’s desk at City ...

A new book values justice for Black Americans, but its secular thesis only goes so far. More than a decade ago, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successfully pushed reparations into the contemporary ...