A group of formerly enslaved people gather on a South Carolina plantation during the Union occupation in 1862. Corbis/ Getty Images As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, legislation for a commission to ...

Longtime Los Angeles resident Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the California Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in 2022. (Carolyn ...

A debate over reparations drove one California assemblyman to tears earlier this month after his Republican colleague argued that Asians and Latinos shouldn’t be forced to pay for a measure ...

The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally. The headline: “House Dems reintroduce reparations legislation: ‘We refuse to be silent.’ ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Evanston is a Chicago suburb of 75,000 people, and it's about to do something no other city has done in the country: pay reparations to some of its Black residents. "Our goal here in ...

Three years ago, it was reported that the Evanston City Council voted to launch the first phase of a reparations program for Black residents in the Chicago suburb. Initially, residents who qualified ...

SPRINGFIELD — Several Democratic candidates for president have endorsed the idea of the government paying reparations to African Americans as compensation for the enslavement of their ancestors. How ...

Vice President Harris, who is open to convening a federal commission to examine reparations for Black Americans, will face pressure from advocates to take concrete steps to advance the cause ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida state senator from the Tampa Bay area wants to preemptively ban Florida from paying reparations to Black communities and the descendants of slaves. Earlier this week, Sen ...

LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal's government said on Saturday it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, contrary to ...