EVANSTON, Ill. — This week, the state of California released the first-ever comprehensive look at the impact of 150 years of slavery on Black life in America. The 484-page report details the ...
The campaign to bring restitution and repair to the damage done to the Black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, continues, as the city’s mayor has unveiled a proposal to redress the century-old atrocity.
City council members in Evanston, Illinois, approved a $400,000 reparations program for Black residents on Monday. Here's how it works. Photo: Alderman Robin Sue Simmons, who spearheaded a program for ...
Officials in the Chicago suburb of Evanston voted Monday to release the first batch of funds in a program offering reparations to Black residents whose families have felt the effects of decades of ...
After decades of languishing as something of a fringe idea, the call for reparations really caught steam in the late 1980s through the '90s. Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers first introduced a bill ...
As a 28-year-old Black millennial, husband, minister and president of the Tacoma Branch NAACP, I’m writing you because today Washington state stands at an historic turning point. The Legislature has ...