Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his plan to form a reparations task force ahead of the 2024 Juneteenth holiday. He called it “a pledge to shape the future of our city by confronting the ...

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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 ...

When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a bill late last year to form a state task force to study slavery reparations, advocates won a hard-fought battle they had lost at the national level just ...

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., proposed a resolution this week that compels the United States federal government to begin the process of providing reparations to Black American descendants of enslaved ...

Survivors of the Tulsa race massacre say that its effects are a "public nuisance" in a case for reparations from the city and the state of Oklahoma.

Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto ...