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 ...

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.

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

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 ...

Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for Americans to make reparations for slavery. On June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties ...

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, ...

Any New York state reparations legislation will be “vigorously challenged in federal court,” the reformer behind the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to block affirmative action in higher education, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., DC, UNITED STATES, May 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As efforts for equity and inclusion face significant challenges, the U.S. reparations movement ...

The African American warrant for reparations : the crime of European enslavement of Africans and its consequences / Molefi Kete Asante -- Reparations : an idea whose time has come / John Conyers Jr.