San Francisco mayor signs ordinance creating reparations fund that could grant eligible Black residents up to $5 million each ...

As 2025 draws to a close, San Francisco has made a significant move on the long-discussed issue of reparations for Black ...

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.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie quietly signed an ordinance in late December creating a reparations fund that could one day ...

Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for ...

Woke San Francisco lawmakers unanimously voted to create a reparations fund for the city’s small black community — despite claims that the plan could run afoul of the Constitution.

Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his plan to form a reparations task force ahead of the 2024 Juneteenth holiday. He called it “a pledge to shape the future of our city by confronting the ...

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 ...

Local reparations programs — in about a dozen cities and the state of California — have renewed hopes for an eventual national policy to compensate for slavery. But after decades of lobbying and three ...

There is now a bright, and important, marker in the reparations debate. In 1988, Jesse Jackson made reparations part of his campaign platform. In 2016, President Barack Obama dismissed reparations as ...

On Wednesday the House Judiciary approved H.R. 40 — a reparations bill written more than 30 years ago. It's a long-overdue but history-making step. The bill, which will form a commission to study the ...

Some say reparations are needed to restore economic balance. In the early 20th century, Richard Givens, a Black man, toiled as a laborer in a box mill in Greensville County, Virginia. He earned $300 ...