Recently, Evanston, Ill., enacted the first reparations program in the country. San Francisco is following suit, but its reparations plan is less about policy and more about performance. What is being ...

Evanston, Illinois distributed $25,000 reparations payments to Black residents through nation's first municipal reparations ...

Cincinnati NAACP President David Whitehead urged reparations support while Santa Clara County explores compensation and ...

Signed into law by Gov. Bob Ferguson in May, the measure gives Washington the authority to examine how it might address the lasting impacts of slavery. Tucked inside Washington State’s newly approved ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — This week, the state of California released the first-ever comprehensive look at the impact of 150 years of slavery on Black life in America. The 484-page report details the ...

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre—one of the deadliest instances of racial violence in U.S. history—Tulsa's first Black mayor has announced a $105 million reparations initiative. It ...

City council members in Evanston, Illinois, approved a $400,000 reparations program for Black residents on Monday. Here's how it works. Photo: Alderman Robin Sue Simmons, who spearheaded a program for ...

The campaign to bring restitution and repair to the damage done to the Black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, continues, as the city’s mayor has unveiled a proposal to redress the century-old atrocity.

After decades of languishing as something of a fringe idea, the call for reparations really caught steam in the late 1980s through the '90s. Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers first introduced a bill ...

Illinois reparations commission released comprehensive report titled "Taking Account" documenting racial injustice from ...