A Georgetown University Law Center professor argued there is a historical precedent for paying reparations for the United States’ long history of enslaving Black people in a new book published Jan. 20 ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in October hosted a meeting of a state-supported reparations committee, where two of its professors and one of its researchers advocated in favor of ...

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

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he "shocked and horrified" to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave ...

Advocates for reparations, who have struggled to enact key pieces of their agenda, don't appear likely to have a strong ...

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by the legacy of slavery in the Garden State. The New ...

The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland launched a fifth round of reparations grants as the state established the Maryland ...

For generations, scholars and citizens alike have grappled with a persistent question: "Why is Africa poor?". Despite the ...