California had the country believe that it was all in about giving reparations to its Black residents, repairing the damage caused by years of systemic racism. Everyone involved knew the weight that ...

The U.S. is currently in a profoundly divisive era across political and cultural lines. Nowhere is this clearer than in the ongoing and coordinated assault on equity, including the backlash against ...

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 ...

During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a ...

California’s reparations movement — rooted in a long history of advocating for justice for Black Americans — hit a significant roadblock on Aug. 31, reported Cal Matters. The state’s Assembly ...

Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist dismissed reparations as “yesterday’s fad,” praising Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for vetoing a bill that would have created a state commission to study them.

A bill in the California Legislature would create a first-of-its-kind agency to administer economic reparations for slavery, if lawmakers were to approve reparations. State Sen. Steven Bradford ...

In the eyes of many black Americans, the United States needs to make a fundamental acknowledgement of slavery. For more and more blacks, an apology is not enough; that acknowledgement, they feel, ...

Sir Hilary McD. Beckles KA is Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission. 25.03.2024 It took all of the nineteenth ...

Walking on the National Mall in Washington D.C. several weeks ago, I encountered one of the few things that come close to making me feel ashamed to be an American. It was Saturday, August 17th, and ...