After a turbulent year marked by the rapid rollback of 60 years of civil rights gains, answering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a ...

Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist dismissed reparations as “yesterday’s fad,” praising Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for vetoing a bill that would have created a state commission to study them.

Sir Hilary McD. Beckles KA is Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission. 25.03.2024 It took all of the nineteenth ...

The D.C. Council passed a reparations bill this week that would compensate Black Washingtonians who are descendants of slaves or have been affected by Jim Crow-era policies, but Mayor Muriel Bowser ...

Any New York state reparations legislation will be “vigorously challenged in federal court,” the reformer behind the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to block affirmative action in higher education, ...

In the eyes of many black Americans, the United States needs to make a fundamental acknowledgement of slavery. For more and more blacks, an apology is not enough; that acknowledgement, they feel, ...

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

As a Latina student from a low-income minority background, I have learned the importance of education and knowledge. Education is not just a privilege but a responsibility, equipping us to drive ...

The African American warrant for reparations : the crime of European enslavement of Africans and its consequences / Molefi Kete Asante -- Reparations : an idea whose time has come / John Conyers Jr.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in October hosted a meeting of a state-supported reparations committee, where two of its professors and one of its researchers advocated in favor of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., DC, UNITED STATES, May 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As efforts for equity and inclusion face significant challenges, the U.S. reparations movement ...