City council members in Evanston, Illinois, approved a $400,000 reparations program for Black residents on Monday. Here's how it works. Photo: Alderman Robin Sue Simmons, who spearheaded a program for ...

A lawsuit filed by a conservative activist group claims a Chicago suburb discriminated against residents who are not Black when it paid nearly $5 million in reparations to some Black residents in ...

America’s first reparations programme which hands out $25,000 (£19,500) to black citizens has been hit by a legal challenge for discriminating against white people. Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, was ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) -- On Wednesday, members of the California Legislative Black Caucus announced a package of reparations bills in a first effort to repair Black Californians harmed by the ...

In January, Black lawmakers in Sacramento released the nation’s first statewide reparations package, a slew of bills intended to compensate the descendants of enslaved Black people. Though nascent, ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — This week, the state of California released the first-ever comprehensive look at the impact of 150 years of slavery on Black life in America. The 484-page report details the ...

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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts college town that established one of the nation’s first reparation funds for Black residents is considering spending the proceeds of the $2 million endowment on youth ...

A Massachusetts college town that established one of the nation's first reparation funds for Black residents is considering spending the proceeds of the $2 million endowment on youth programs, ...

The Fulton County Reparations Task Force held its first public meeting in Atlanta on Thursday night to discuss its work and face questions. "Reparations means to repair. There's not one certain avenue ...

The multiple bills would establish agencies to oversee the allocation of reparations as well as correcting the injustice of eminent domain. New reparations bills made it through their first hearing in ...