The fund was set up in response to recommendations for single payments of as much as $5 million to any Black San Franciscans who might be eligible.

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

Human Rights Watch has once again called for reparations for the legacies of enslavement and anti-Black racism in a ...

ABC News Live takes a closer look at Asheville's historic reparations plan. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- More than 150 years after emancipation, the city council in Asheville, North Carolina, voted this month ...

APIA (Reuters) -The leaders of the Commonwealth grouping of nations met on Thursday ahead of a summit in the South Pacific nation of Samoa that will feature talks on climate change and the question of ...

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation's only Black governor — that ...

King says Commonwealth has 'painful' history Member countries push for slavery reparations Climate pledge also on agenda APIA, Samoa, Oct 25 (Reuters) - King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth ...

A coalition of Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Thursday reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent. Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) ...

For the first time in history, Washington state will conduct a study and develop proposals for reparations to descendants of chattel slavery. Approved as part of the state’s $78 billion two-year ...

APIA, Samoa — King Charles said Friday that the Commonwealth should acknowledge its “painful” history, as African and Caribbean nations push for reparations for Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery ...