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” ...

Under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York City has set aside $500,000 to fund community discussions on reparations and other forms ...

Like many residents of Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, Jacques Powers wears clothes and boots painted with dirt and mud and gets around in a humming monster truck. But no matter where ...

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 ...

A Charleston-based reparations task force is calling for the transfer of thousands of acres of land from three of the ...

There’s a new push to give federal reparations to descendants of slaves among congressional Democrats, this time being led by progressive Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich. Thanedar introduced a bill late ...

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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 ...