This video outlines which reparations claims meet strict legal standards and why documentation determines eligibility. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olympia Mayor Dontae Payne says the U.S. government has a debt to pay to the descendants of enslaved people. He said the promise ...

No amount of money can pay for slavery and colonialism, and offering it, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. argues, is itself an insult. That was the premise the Ghanaian journalist and Pan-Africanist — widely known ...

Some advocates and experts say reparations are the answer. They would not only help eliminate wealth differences caused by systemic racism, but are also “a form of compensation that would amount to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Tulsa officials announced the creation of a new commission to recommend how reparations can be made for a 1921 massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in the city. The ...

After former Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) retired from City Council in 2021, she said people all over the country still came to her asking for guidance on how to set up reparations initiatives in ...

President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar compensation proposal for Jan.

The idea of giving Black people reparations for slavery dates back to right after the end of the Civil War (think 40 acres and a mule). For decades, it's mostly been an idea debated outside the ...

Bring the history of the reparations movement in America into your classroom by exploring a rarely discussed chapter of California history—the hostility toward Black settlements. This adaptation of ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...