Evanston, Illinois distributed $25,000 reparations payments to Black residents through nation's first municipal reparations program, with 137 recipients receiving $3.47 million total.

Vice Mayor Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney and Councilman Scotty Johnson proposed Cincinnati's Real Property Reparations Program.

Illinois reparations commission released comprehensive report titled "Taking Account" documenting racial injustice from ...

Evanston's Reparations Committee will distribute funds to Black residents and their descendants who experienced housing discrimination. Who's eligible?

A University of Connecticut professor and reparations expert spoke to the African American Cultural Center (AACC) about his research on U.S. reparations for slavery on Wednesday.

Juneteenth on Saturday — a newly minted federal holiday — commemorates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. 156 years ago. But more than a century and a half after slavery ...

FirstRepair, an Evanston-based nonprofit reparations organization, is hosting its fifth annual National Symposium for State and Local Reparations with the National African American Reparations ...

What was once a unanimous commitment to reparations in the early 2020s seems to be crumbling in Asheville's city council and mayoral races.

The Office of Freedmen Affairs would guide potential reparations efforts for descendants of enslaved people, including scholarships and tax relief benefits.

A Georgetown University Law Center professor argued there is a historical precedent for paying reparations for the United States’ long history of enslaving Black people in a new book published Jan. 20 ...

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation's only ...