Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olympia Mayor Dontae Payne says the U.S. government has a debt to pay to the descendants of enslaved people. He said the promise ...

Evanston says it will defend its reparations program after the U.S. Justice Department joined a lawsuit challenging it.

The New York City Council voted Thursday to launch a reparations task force, which could lead to calls for billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded payouts to compensate for the impact of slavery and ...

Juneteenth, celebrated annually in the United States on June 19, commemorates the liberation of enslaved Black people. It marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and ...

Juneteenth on Saturday — a newly minted federal holiday — commemorates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. 156 years ago. But more than a century and a half after slavery ...

Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox. After former Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) retired from City Council in 2021, she said people all over the ...

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 ...

On March 25, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution. Proposed by Ghana, it ...

Bring the history of the reparations movement in America into your classroom by exploring a rarely discussed chapter of California history—the hostility toward Black settlements. This adaptation of ...

Thousands turned out for reparations in Central Park. The bigger question: will the city actually deliver lasting change?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution declaring slave trade “gravest crime against humanity,” calling for ...