Some African elites benefited from slave trade and colonisation. This must be taken into account in reparation debates.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2021, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, became the first American city to offer reparations to its eligible African ...

The New York City Council has joined its San Francisco counterpart in proposing potential financial reparations for the descendants of enslaved Americans. The year-long, $1.5 million task force would ...

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would ...

Introduction In the grand ledger of history, some debts are too vast to quantify and too consequential to ignore .

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.

We live in an upside-down world. The leaders of the richer nations, the old colonial powers, want to rehabilitate the language of imperialism: praise for their past, and a desire to repeat that ...

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by the legacy of slavery in the Garden State. The New ...

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Reparations Commission has delivered their final report to Mayor Tishaura Jones. For the past year and a half, they’ve held 27 listening sessions all across the city. The ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture shows exhibits of slavery, a lack of generational wealth and other economic discrimination that some states and cities are using to call for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Juneteenth in 2023, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a Newark-based advocacy group, launched the New Jersey ...