Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” ...

These efforts show how working locally to grapple with the complexity of land-based reparations is a necessary and feasible part of the nation’s healing process. Ever since the United States ...

(Reuters) -After California state legislators passed bills addressing the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the most ambitious of the reparations proposals. The ...

While America has yet to address the damage caused by chattel slavery on a widespread scale, there have been several efforts to even the playing field. In states like Oklahoma and California, Black ...

Juneteenth on Saturday — a newly minted federal holiday — commemorates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. 156 years ago. But more than a century and a half after slavery ...

NEW YORK — New York City lawmakers approved legislation Thursday to study the city's significant role in slavery and consider reparations to descendants of enslaved people. If signed into law, the ...

Fueled by racial justice protests in 2020, a bill to study slavery reparations for Black Americans appeared to gain some traction in Congress for the first time in decades. But President Joe Biden ...

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 ...

The city of Palm Springs, Calif., will pay nearly $6 million in reparations to Black and brown families who were displaced from a neighborhood there during the 1960s. The tentative settlement will be ...

Detroit's Reparations Task Force, the first of its kind for the city, submitted its long-anticipated report of recommendations to the City Council. The task force, created through a 2021 ...

The Reparations Stakeholders Authority of Evanston held a community meeting at the Faith Temple Church Monday night to discuss how to allocate its $1 million reparations fund. The forum, intended to ...