A University of Connecticut professor and reparations expert spoke to the African American Cultural Center (AACC) about his research on U.S. reparations for slavery on Wednesday.

Evanston's Reparations Committee will distribute funds to Black residents and their descendants who experienced housing ...

One of the first school districts to pursue reparations for Black Americans is now pondering a proposal to offer cash payments to descendants of enslaved people. A small sliver of the K-12 world, ...

It’s a hot morning on the Capitol lawn just days after the end of the legislative session, and several advocacy groups that represent people who have been incarcerated are kicking off their next big ...

Juneteenth on Saturday — a newly minted federal holiday — commemorates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. 156 years ago. But more than a century and a half after slavery ...

Commission to engage policymakers and community members at historic gathering in Albany ALBANY, NY, UNITED STATES, ...

Five years after the Reparations Stakeholder Authority of Evanston announced it would create its own privately funded ...

The reparations fund did not receive any philanthropic donations this year as of Jan. 31, so the fund is primarily supported ...

Forty-four Evanston residents will be issued payments, after it became the first U.S. city to give publicly funded reparations.

A conservative watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois city that recently announced plans to pay out ...

The secretary-general of the Commonwealth, a 56-nation group headed by Britain's King Charles, said on Wednesday she expected ...

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