Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” ...

These efforts show how working locally to grapple with the complexity of land-based reparations is a necessary and feasible part of the nation’s healing process. Ever since the United States ...

While America has yet to address the damage caused by chattel slavery on a widespread scale, there have been several efforts to even the playing field. In states like Oklahoma and California, Black ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Maryland could soon become the next state to consider reparations for ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a handful of bills on Thursday that stemmed from a yearslong effort to issue lineage-based reparations for the state’s Black residents and their descendants.

Fueled by racial justice protests in 2020, a bill to study slavery reparations for Black Americans appeared to gain some traction in Congress for the first time in decades. But President Joe Biden ...

The city of Palm Springs, Calif., will pay nearly $6 million in reparations to Black and brown families who were displaced from a neighborhood there during the 1960s. The tentative settlement will be ...

Detroit's Reparations Task Force, the first of its kind for the city, submitted its long-anticipated report of recommendations to the City Council. The task force, created through a 2021 ...

Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation’s only Black governor — that ...

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million ...