Why did a bill to create a state reparations agency, the centerpiece of California’s initial attempt to introduce legislation to repair harm endured by Black Californians, fail? SB 1403 would have ...

ASHEVILLE - Since the beginning, Asheville and Buncombe County's reparations process has been navigating largely uncharted territory. Frustration was palpable at a recent meeting as commission members ...

A New York lawmaker wants the federal government to push a $14 trillion reparations measure. The measure is touted by "Squad" member Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who wants the federal government to be ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A group is pushing for all descendants of slaves in Chicago to have their property taxes waived. New billboards are up on the corner of Chicago Avenue and Austin Boulevard to bring ...

The search to better understand his roots took Paul Thomas Harper to his late grandmother’s attic in St. Paul, Minnesota. There, among the letters and photographs, he found clues that, once plugged ...

A House Democrat plans to introduce a resolution calling for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars on reparations for Black Americans this week. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., plans to introduce the ...

In December, Boston’s City Council voted to craft a plan to pay reparations for slavery and its aftermath. The vote was unanimous, and the councilor who authored the resolution called it “the start of ...

The decision by Oakland’s new school board to rescind a school closure plan has renewed hope in the reparations movement to improve the outcomes of Oakland Unified School District’s Black students.

Catherine Richardson is affiliated with The Centre for Response-Based Practice trying to address violence. I am the Quebec Indigenous critic for the Green Party and a member of the Green party but I ...

Searing heat waves, hypercharged storms, rising sea levels, devastating droughts and floods — evidence of climate change’s calamitous impact is being felt from the Bahamas to Bangladesh, and it’s ...