Evanston says it will defend its reparations program after the U.S. Justice Department joined a lawsuit challenging it.

The first reparations program for slavery in the United States is under legal attack, with conservatives seeking to end the ...

The program provides $25,000 housing-related payments to eligible residents and descendants impacted by discriminatory ...

Oakland's reparations task force for Black students failed to meet objectives after five years. A member says the group ...

The federal government on Tuesday filed a motion to join an ongoing civil rights lawsuit to stop the nation’s first ...

White House joined suit to stop city of Evanston, Illinois, from compensating victims of housing discrimination ...

The Trump administration is supporting a legal challenge aimed at dismantling the nation’s first reparations program for ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has moved to join a lawsuit seeking to halt the country’s first and only operating reparations program for Black residents, placing the Department of Justice on the side of a ...

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 ...

African and Caribbean leaders in Ghana are urging former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations for the ...