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

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's been 80 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Decades later, the ...

University of Illinois professors advocate for collective reparations at Illinois meeting, calling for community payments beyond individual compensation.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie approved a new law setting up a reparations fund to compensate for slavery and racial discrimination that passed the city’s Board of Supervisors earlier in December.

American slavery ended with the Civil War but the debate about moral responsibility continues. Workers enslaved by Nazi Germany will finally be paid for their suffering, and Japanese Americans have ...

The mayor of San Francisco signed an ordinance that creates a "Reparations Fund" that could one day grant each of the city's eligible Black residents up to $5 million in reparations for alleged ...

The reparations fund creates a framework but does not allocate any city money for direct payments. Supporters call it a step forward, while critics warn of legal risks, bureaucracy, and potential ...

City leaders call the measure a symbolic step toward accountability, while critics say it falls short without guaranteed funding. San Francisco officials have taken a formal step toward potential ...

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 ...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders caused a stir when he told Fusion that he does not support reparations for slavery on the grounds that such a program would be “very divisive” and ...