Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pursuing reparations for Black Chicagoans through the "Repair Chicago" forum, even as the ...

Chicago has begun public forums to gather input for a reparations study. The initiative comes two years after forming a reparations task force. The effort unfolds as the city faces significant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Wes Moore vetoed dozens of bills in Annapolis on Friday, including the reparations study. In an accompanying letter, Moore ...

When Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination in 2020, he said the nation was issuing "the most compelling call for racial justice since the '60s." Months later after winning the presidency, he ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Friday vetoed a bill that would have required the state to define the economic harms to Black descendants of enslaved people and recommend remedies, dealing a blow to ...

As we still mourn the passing of the oldest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Mother Viola Fletcher, Washington state’s handling of its reparations study shows the fragile line between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. St. Paul’s reparations commission plans to contract with a research company for a “harm study” examining the impact of “historic ...

*Political leaders often advocate for funding studies on reparations for slavery as a gesture toward racial justice, yet they frequently stop short of drafting or endorsing concrete policies that ...

The Olympia City Council last week held a study session to discuss research findings and a path forward for considering policies that would provide reparations for descendants of slaves. Assistant ...

Larry Gibson, a lawyer, longtime law professor at the Francis King Carey School of Law in the University of Maryland, Baltimore, political strategist and historian, is an elder that has made ...