The California reparations task force has issued its final recommendations and report to the state legislature for consideration. Some of the proposals face an uphill battle. Some task force members ...

One of the first school districts to pursue reparations for Black Americans is now pondering a proposal to offer cash payments to descendants of enslaved people. A small sliver of the K-12 world, ...

Last week’s International Drug Policy Reform Conference was notable for its inclusion of activists who have been working in the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s undebatable that the prohibition of ...

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San Francisco's mayor has signed an ordinance creating a reparations fund for black residents while admitting the ...

Steve Adubato welcomes Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of "Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own" and Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at ...

They've set up a protest site on the Ellipse near the White House. It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on ...

Olympia Mayor Dontae Payne says the U.S. government has a debt to pay to the descendants of enslaved people. He said the promise of 40 acres and a mule was never fulfilled after the Civil War, and it ...

As talk of reparations ripples through the federal and local governments nationwide, Evanston, Ill., has become the first city in the United States to put money in the hands of Black residents ...

The Olympia City Council is set to discuss city-scale actions from around the country that could provide reparations to the descendants of enslaved African people in Olympia when it holds a June 24 ...

About reparations, a skeptical President Barack Obama in 2016 told reparations proponent Ta-Nehisi Coates that it would divide the country. Obama said: “It is hard to think of any society in human ...

Nick Haines moderates a community conversation on the divisive topic of reparations in KC. In partnership with American Public Square, this special edition of Kansas City Week in Review features a ...