A group of formerly enslaved people gather on a South Carolina plantation during the Union occupation in 1862. Corbis/ Getty Images As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, legislation for a commission to ...

A California Democrat held back tears earlier this month when a Republican lawmaker said it would be unfair to make Asians and Latinos pay slavery reparations to African-Americans. The exchange ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Evanston is a Chicago suburb of 75,000 people, and it's about to do something no other city has done in the country: pay reparations to some of its Black residents. "Our goal here in ...

Reparations to descendants of slaves has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years, and two Harvard University professors argue federal reparations would be in line with how the government handles ...

Three years ago, it was reported that the Evanston City Council voted to launch the first phase of a reparations program for Black residents in the Chicago suburb. Initially, residents who qualified ...

Woke San Francisco lawmakers unanimously voted to create a reparations fund for the city’s small black community — despite claims that the plan could run afoul of the Constitution.

Olympia Mayor Dontae Payne says the U.S. government has a debt to pay to the descendants of enslaved people. He said the promise of 40 acres and a mule was never fulfilled after the Civil War, and it ...

A debate over reparations drove one California assemblyman to tears earlier this month after his Republican colleague argued that Asians and Latinos shouldn’t be forced to pay for a measure ...

Algeria’s parliament backed a bill demanding France apologize and pay reparations for its 130-year occupation of the North ...