New York's City Council voted Thursday to launch a reparations task force, which could lead to calls for billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded payouts to compensate for the impact of slavery and past ...

This Q&A seeks to answer some common questions about reparations for Black people in the United States as a remedy for enslavement and its legacies, as a matter of human rights. 1. What are ...

Following the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent calls for American society to have a "racial reckoning," there has been an uptick in support for reparations for Black Americans, but a new ...

Black members of Congress and advocates convened on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for what they say is an urgent call for reparations, even as Donald Trump’s White House uses the power of the presidency to ...

Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York The debate about reparations to descendants of enslaved people rages on. In California, the state’s reparations task force has ...

California lawmakers next year face huge political and financial challenges as they seriously consider reparations for Black descendants of slaves. While Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative lawamakers ...