AMHERST ― The Amherst Town Council voted unanimously last week to create a Black Reparations Committee. This decision comes almost two years after the African Heritage Reparation Assembly gave its ...

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 ...

When President Biden proclaimed Wednesday as Juneteenth Day of Observance, he called on Americans to “recognize how the impact of America’s original sin remains.” He listed his administration’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

Governments attending the Africa-CARICOM Summit should closely work with civil society and affected communities to develop a human rights-based approach to reparations, Human Rights Watch said today.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in October hosted a meeting of a state-supported reparations committee, where two of its professors and one of its researchers advocated in favor of ...

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 ...

A University of Connecticut professor and reparations expert spoke to the African American Cultural Center (AACC) about his research on U.S. reparations for slavery on Wednesday. Dr. Thomas Craemer is ...

Black communities in Los Angeles continue to face systemic discrimination, inequality and overpolicing, a new study from the city’s Reparations Advisory Commission reveals. The study is the first city ...

Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama has described the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as the ‘Greatest Crime’, and pushes the United Nations for reparations during his address at the recently held 8 th ...