Their final report, a 558-page report submitted at the end of October 2025, aims to do more than acknowledge past wrongs: it charts a comprehensive, city-wide plan for repairing harms inflicted on ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — It was a busy night for lawmakers as they close out this legislative session. Lawmakers were here past two a.m. heading into Friday morning and are expected to pull another all ...

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their countries. In Jamaica, which became a ...

This year was supposed to be the year Albany finally got serious about creating new housing in New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul kicked off the 2023 legislative session by unveiling a plan she claimed would ...

Governments attending the Africa-CARICOM Summit should closely work with civil society and affected communities to develop a human rights-based approach to reparations, Human Rights Watch said today.

In this Q&A, Human Rights Watch examines the application of the right to reparation to redress past and present harms stemming from colonial atrocities, including enslavement,[1] systemic racial ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, accompanied by state House Speaker Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia, and Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, delivers his budget address for the 2025-26 fiscal year to a joint ...