A state senator and member of the California reparations task force dismissed concerns about the financial costs and political will to deliver "free tuition, home loan assistance and tax breaks" to ...

Evanston, Ill., will lead the way in December, when it awards Black residents the first reparations provided by a municipal government. A man takes a knee during a protest rally outside Hartford ...

Louis Weathers had a stable job and was married when he decided to buy a home in the Chicago suburb of Evanston in 1959 – but high interest rates and White real estate agents who seemed adamant about ...

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Oct 22 (Reuters) - After California state legislators passed bills addressing the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the most ambitious of the reparations ...

State legislators can now begin to draw up laws that would give Black Californians restitution for the long-term effects of slavery. The California Task Force to Develop Reparation Proposals for ...

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 ...

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.

Independent French reparations agency, Instance Nationale Indépendate de Reconnaissance et de Réparation (INIRR), reported that it has provided financial reparations to over 500 victims of sexual ...

"Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In 'From Here to Equality, ' William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices ...

Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama has described the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as the ‘Greatest Crime’, and pushes the United Nations for reparations during his address at the recently held 8 th ...

The deadlock, which the delegates to the Premiers’ Conference in London managed to keep dead and locked for a considerable time, was at length vivified and unlocked: full agreement was reached by the ...