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Detroit’s reparations task force now has until 2025 to make its report, but going slow with this challenging work may not be a bad thing

Members of the task force listen at a public meeting. Screenshot/Channel 10 by Kamri Hudgins, University of Michigan; Erykah Noelle Benson, University of Michigan; Mara...

Many wealthy members of Congress are descendants of rich slaveholders − new study demonstrates the enduring legacy of slavery

A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A slaveholder, Davis represented Mississippi...

Chicago City Faces Lawsuit Over Groundbreaking Reparations Program

A Chicago suburb has recently found itself at the center of a legal frenzy involving reparations. The city of Evanston has garnered national attention...

Fulton County Rights Reparations Task Force for Slavery Wrongs

Funding for the Fulton County Reparations Task Force has officially been approved. The Fulton County Board of Commissioners moved forward to include funding in...

San Francisco Reparations Committee Proposes $5M Each To Black Residents

The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee is recommending eligible Black residents receive $5 million each as compensation for the “decades of harm...

Black Residents May Be Due Hundreds Of Thousands In Reparations, According To Task Force

California's reparations task force has tapped economic experts to begin putting dollar figures on potential compensation for the state's Black residents who have suffered...

Harvard Pledges $100M, HBCU Partnerships To Address Its Ties To Slavery

By Cherranda Smith    Harvard University announced it's making a pledge of $100 million in an effort to address and correct its connection to slavery. In 2019, Harvard President Lawrence S....

WATCH: Julianne Malveaux on Slavery Reparations: “Our Economic Success … Punished By The Rope, Stymied By Lynching”

Danny Glover, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Julianne Malveaux and others testified on slavery reparations before a House Judiciary subcommittee. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil...

Mitch McConnell Says He Won’t Support Reparations Because ‘We Elected an African-American President’

By David Edwards Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Tuesday that the United States does not need...

Reparations: A Timeline and Distillation

There has been a long, historical and geographically varied movement on the issue of Reparations that preceded contemporary entry and discourse -- 129 years...

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