Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” ...

Descendants are calling for land from three major Lowcountry plantations.

These efforts show how working locally to grapple with the complexity of land-based reparations is a necessary and feasible part of the nation’s healing process. Ever since the United States ...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) on Wednesday unveiled a resolution urging the federal government to provide reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent. Bush said at a press ...

Activists demanded California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations, dismissing the proposals from ...

Fueled by racial justice protests in 2020, a bill to study slavery reparations for Black Americans appeared to gain some traction in Congress for the first time in decades. But President Joe Biden ...