A pro-reparations sign sits outside a home in the 5th Ward on March 23, 2021, in Evanston. Aldermen approved the first ...

Signed into law by Gov. Bob Ferguson in May, the measure gives Washington the authority to examine how it might address the lasting impacts of slavery. Tucked inside Washington State’s newly approved ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — This week, the state of California released the first-ever comprehensive look at the impact of 150 years of slavery on Black life in America. The 484-page report details the ...

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre—one of the deadliest instances of racial violence in U.S. history—Tulsa's first Black mayor has announced a $105 million reparations initiative. It ...

The campaign to bring restitution and repair to the damage done to the Black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, continues, as the city’s mayor has unveiled a proposal to redress the century-old atrocity.

After decades of languishing as something of a fringe idea, the call for reparations really caught steam in the late 1980s through the '90s. Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers first introduced a bill ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The City of Evanston, Illinois' Reparations Committee issued $25,000 to 44 residents earlier this month in reparations' payments ...

George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a counterfeit $20 bill, died as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine ...

The leader of the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies said a report for lawmakers is on track to be released later this year. Though meeting regularly since 2024, the group has ...