SAN FRANCISCO -- Members of California's Black reparations task force presented their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, challenging critics to read the hefty tome and reconsider ...

One of the most concrete solutions to righting the wrongs of racial harm in the United States—slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and ongoing systemic racism—is reparations for Black Americans. While ...

New York's City Council voted Thursday to launch a reparations task force, which could lead to calls for billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded payouts to compensate for the impact of slavery and past ...

A group wearing Malcom X white T shirts protest at Columbus Circle demanding reparations for slavery of Black people in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 15, 2020. Rashid Umar Abbasi The Issue: New ...

Black members of Congress and advocates convened on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for what they say is an urgent call for reparations, even as Donald Trump’s White House uses the power of the presidency to ...

A University of Connecticut professor and reparations expert spoke to the African American Cultural Center (AACC) about his research on U.S. reparations for slavery on Wednesday. Dr. Thomas Craemer is ...

California legislators could soon approve billions of dollars in reparations for Black residents, but past restitution programs in the state suggest that those efforts can be challenging to execute.

"If we do it right, without a doubt, this will be a blueprint for America." Those were the remarks of Democratic California state Sen. Steven Bradford last week regarding the California Reparations ...

California lawmakers next year face huge political and financial challenges as they seriously consider reparations for Black descendants of slaves. While Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative lawamakers ...

Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York The debate about reparations to descendants of enslaved people rages on. In California, the state’s reparations task force has ...