The new House speaker launched the nation’s only government-backed commission to hold a state accountable for racial terror.

Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for ...

In 2021, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, became the first American city to offer reparations to its eligible African American residents. Now, a conservative organization has filed a lawsuit ...

Juneteenth has been celebrated in its home state of Texas since 1866, but it wouldn’t become a nationwide holiday until 2021 as racial tensions spiked in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

A Black woman once sued her enslaver and won in front of an all-white jury. Her story is one of the few victories in the history of reparations in America. There has been more vocal support for ...

can you imagine a child like me watching this hearing this feeling, this fear my granddad decided that, hey, we're gonna have to leave because they're gonna kill us and burn up everything in Ochoa in ...

The number is as staggering as it is undeniable. A minute fraction of the harms of the trans-Atlantic slave crimes is ...

A memorial to Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach. The city of Manhattan Beach used eminent domain in 1924 to drive out a seaside resort for Black guests owned by Willa and Charles Bruce. (Jay L.

Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the ...

From criminal justice reform to how to best teach American history, race continues to be one of the most contentious issues in American politics. On one side of this volatile debate, a number of ...