Frustration and disappointment with the Democratic Party are at generational highs, and the San Francisco Board of ...

While the United States has never implemented a widespread slavery reparations program, the tide might be turning as several states and cities push proposals that would benefit descendants of slaves ...

Reparations could be coming for Black Californians who are descendants of those enslaved in the United States. The California Reparations Task Force publicly released its final report in Sacramento ...

When did the discussion of reparations start? Even before the Civil War ended. In 1865, Maj. General William Tecumseh Sherman famously ordered that "40 acres and a mule" be given to Black Americans ...

Black members of Congress and advocates convened on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for what they say is an urgent call for reparations, even as Donald Trump’s White House uses the power of the presidency to ...

Some say reparations are needed to restore economic balance. In the early 20th century, Richard Givens, a Black man, toiled as a laborer in a box mill in Greensville County, Virginia. He earned $300 ...

Experts say if this week’s apology by San Francisco leaders to the city’s Black residents for decades of discrimination is going to be a first step toward reparations, the steps that follow must be ...

The fight for reparations is gaining ground across the country, and can no longer be ignored. Once dismissed by many as impractical, the quest for reparations for the descendants of African people ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Our neighbors to the west are about to embark on a giant political and socioeconomic experiment to put money behind the movement that launched the 2020 summer of protests. California is one of a dozen ...

Black Americans — some of them anyway — might soon receive reparations for the country's legacy of slavery and racism. In California, a task force is debating "recommendations for how the state can ...