More than a decade ago, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successfully pushed reparations into the contemporary conversation with his ...

How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past,” Dorothy Brown shares how she went from a skeptic to a ...

A Georgetown University Law Center professor argued there is a historical precedent for paying reparations for the United States’ long history of enslaving Black people in a new book published Jan. 20 ...

FirstRepair, an Evanston-based nonprofit reparations organization, is hosting its fifth annual National Symposium for State and Local Reparations with the National African American Reparations ...

Washington state's handling of its reparations study raises concerns about the difference between meaningful repair and performative equity.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation's only ...

Advocates for reparations, who have struggled to enact key pieces of their agenda, don't appear likely to have a strong ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a mixed bag Monday for proponents of bills aimed at addressing the state’s legacy of racist and discriminatory policies against Black ...

For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real ...

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would ...