The fund was set up in response to recommendations for single payments of as much as $5 million to any Black San Franciscans who might be eligible.

Maryland could soon become the next state to consider reparations for slavery. The Maryland House, in a 101-36 vote, approved a bill that would create a commission to study and recommend potential ...

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

ABC News Live takes a closer look at Asheville's historic reparations plan. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- More than 150 years after emancipation, the city council in Asheville, North Carolina, voted this month ...

A state task force had been split on who should receive reparations. A California task force’s decision to limit reparations for slavery to people who can trace their lineage to free and enslaved ...

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 ...

In 2023, a UN judge declared the UK possibly owes over $18 trillion in reparations due to its role in slavery in 14 Caribbean countries. Leaders in the United Kingdom have indicated their desire to ...

Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for ...

Human Rights Watch has once again called for reparations for the legacies of enslavement and anti-Black racism in a ...

Keir Starmer is facing a growing clamour for Britain to pay slavery reparations, which some estimates say could exceed £200 billion. At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa, a group ...

A group wearing Malcom X white T shirts protest at Columbus Circle demanding reparations for slavery of Black people in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 15, 2020. Rashid Umar Abbasi The Issue: New ...

After a resounding defeat, Vice President Kamala Harris is exploring ways to remain politically relevant. Although it is unlikely that Democrats will nominate her again for president, she is in a good ...