Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Juneteenth in 2023, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a Newark-based advocacy group, launched the New Jersey ...

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 ...

The architect of the African Union’s reparations framework for the historic UN resolution explains why demands for historical justice are inseparable from the struggle for Black sovereignty ...

By Layli Foroudi PARIS, May 28 (Reuters) - French lawmakers voted on Thursday to formally repeal slavery-era laws that defined the legal status of enslaved people as "movable property" and justified ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would ...

The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations as "a concrete step towards ...

It wasn’t until his junior year of college that civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons learned about a devastating massacre that took place in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His African ...

French president’s use of term comes as demand grows for formal discussion on addressing legacies of enslavement ...

Descendants are calling for land from three major Lowcountry plantations.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in October hosted a meeting of a state-supported reparations committee, where two of its professors and one of its researchers advocated in favor of ...