University of the West Indies history Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles spoke about reparations for chattel slavery in the postcolonial Americas at a Tuesday event sponsored by Northwestern’s Buffett Institute ...

(RNS) — New York Episcopalians profited from the transatlantic slave trade and were 'uniquely implicated in the odious ...

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against ...

San Francisco’s “Reparations Plan,” signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie late last year, intends to correct historic ills, but good ...

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would ...

On April 17, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the formation of a joint commission with Haiti to examine their intertwined history, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the original ...

The New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies continues collecting testimony and data for a final report.

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by the legacy of slavery in the Garden State. The New ...

Torrey Snow is correct to realize that the discussion of slavery in our country is a complex issue and debate over reparations is bound to be divisive (“What’s lost in the reparations debate,” Dec. 17 ...

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, ​speaking in New York on Tuesday, criticized the U.S. administration for what he ...

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