For the first time, this year advocates seeking reparations for the harms inflicted on Black people during centuries of slavery in America saw a movement for redress that elicits hope. Many ...

New York State's reparations commission heard demands for $800,000 per Black American at a public hearing as officials work toward issuing compensation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, this year advocates seeking reparations for the harms inflicted on Black people during centuries of slavery in ...

Mayor Quinton Lucas convened a Commission on Reparations back in May 2023, with the goal of producing recommendations on how the city could repair harms from racism. Two years later, much of that work ...

The Issue: Gov. Hochul agrees to a commission to look at reparations for descendants of New York slaves. So New York wants to jump on the reparations bandwagon and bankrupt an already-ailing state ...

Support for reparations was boosted in 2014 by an article in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations'' by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates himself admitted that he didn’t expect it to come to fruition. Thanks ...

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 ...

A year after their report was pushed back until 2027, New York's Reparations Commission now has until 2029 to issue its ...

Outside of just New York, there are plenty of cities around the country dedicated to delivering reparations to the ...

The Evanston Reparations Committee has announced the selection event for reparations for the descendants of those who experienced racially discriminatory housing practices in Evanston over the decades ...

New York will study the generational impacts of slavery through a new state commission to consider reparations for Black residents. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday approved the study of slavery's legacy.

Standing beside Gov. Hochul for a bill signing Wednesday were Carl Heastie, speaker of the state Assembly, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, leader of the state Senate, key state Sen. James Sanders, prominent ...