Rep. Ayanna Pressley will reintroduce H.R. 40, federal legislation to study reparations for slavery, on Wednesday as the Trump administration leads a wide-scale rollback of diversity, equity and ...

The House Judiciary Committee heard arguments on Wednesday that would study the effects of slavery and discrimination in the US and would recommend appropriate remedies. House Resolution 40 would not ...

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 ...

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., proposed a resolution this week that compels the United States federal government to begin the process of providing reparations to Black American descendants of enslaved ...

Three Democratic-led measures in Congress — H.Res. 414, H.R. 40, and S. 40 — seek to recognize or study reparations for slavery, but all face long odds. Their introduction comes as a new analysis ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Wednesday is June 19, a day known as Juneteenth by many as it celebrates the end of slavery in America. For the first time in more than 10 years, Congress talked about payment, ...

Charleston’s Reparations Task Force and Gullah Geechee leaders have issued a 40-day deadline for three historic plantations to transfer over 7,000 acres into permanent Gullah Geechee stewardship.

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A coalition of lawmakers and advocates says there is no better time to push for varying forms of reparations as President Trump’s administration continues to attack DEI and once-protected civil rights ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., outside the U.S. Capitol in 2021. (Tom Williams) Rep. Ayanna Pressley will reintroduce H.R. 40, ...