Growingup,I heard the phrase “40 acres and a mule” from all the adults in my life, usually in the context of an unkept promise. “We’re still waiting for our 40 acres,” they’d say, referring to yet ...

Baltimore City’s reparations fund is in limbo amid confusion over how much money it includes and where it can be spent. The Baltimore City fiscal year 2026 budget, signed by Mayor Brandon Scott on ...

The quest to understand reparations requires a studious scrutiny of American history. Let’s go back just two weeks. On June 7, Annelise Finney reported on how far behind the Alameda County commission, ...

Advocates for reparations talk to Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles) at the state Capitol on Saturday. (Laurel Rosenhall / Los Angeles Times) Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers in 2020 ...

Residents in Evanston, Illinois, expressed their frustration Thursday over the slow pace of the city’s historic reparations program, claiming officials would rather “showboat” and mug for the media ...

George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a counterfeit $20 bill, died as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a ...

In this Q&A, Human Rights Watch examines the application of the right to reparation to redress past and present harms stemming from colonial atrocities, including enslavement,[1] systemic racial ...

This Q&A seeks to answer some common questions about reparations for Black people in the United States as a remedy for enslavement and its legacies, as a matter of human rights. 1. What are ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers in 2020 touted a law to create a "first in the nation" state task force to study and propose remedies to atone for the legacy of slavery. Four years later, ...