If you ask any fair-minded person about the greatest injustices perpetrated in and by the United States, slavery would surely be at or near the top of the list. Many arguments have been given in ...

A state task force had been split on who should receive reparations. A California task force’s decision to limit reparations for slavery to people who can trace their lineage to free and enslaved ...

ABC News Live takes a closer look at Asheville's historic reparations plan. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- More than 150 years after emancipation, the city council in Asheville, North Carolina, voted this month ...

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

A group wearing Malcom X white T shirts protest at Columbus Circle demanding reparations for slavery of Black people in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 15, 2020. Rashid Umar Abbasi The Issue: New ...

In 2023, a UN judge declared the UK possibly owes over $18 trillion in reparations due to its role in slavery in 14 Caribbean countries. Leaders in the United Kingdom have indicated their desire to ...

“Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade:” A Transnational and Comparative History, 2nd. Ed., by Ana Lucia Araujo. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 344 pages. $31.45. (paperback). Slavery was ...

Human Rights Watch has once again called for reparations for the legacies of enslavement and anti-Black racism in a ...

WASHINGTON — Despite slim chances of passage and against the backdrop of anti-DEI efforts, some congressional Democrats continue to reintroduce reparations legislation that advocates hope will help ...

GianCarlo Canaparo is a legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Vice President Kamala Harris supports reparations for slavery, but ...

MARYLAND - Governor Wes Moore has vetoed a bill that would have established a commission to explore possible reparations for the descendants of slaves in Maryland. Senate Bill 587 passed both houses ...

The Maryland House voted on Tuesday to override a veto imposed by Democratic Governor Wes Moore and to set up a commission to consider reparations for slavery. Maryland could follow in the footsteps ...