Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

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

Native American reparations are designed to remedy the U.S. government's historical treatment of indigenous tribes, ranging from monetary compensation to land redistribution and recognition of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “I was born for this—and I know exactly what I’m doing.” Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, ...

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

Gen. James Taylor Jr., who founded Newport, Kentucky, left land to about 50 enslaved people in his will. A local court and Taylor's son denied the inheritance. The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled in ...

*Black Lives Matter activist Bree Newsome called out white Americans whose families stole land and property from Black Americans post-slavery. “Amazing how white people commit atrocities in one ...