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.

African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be straightforward.

During a lull one afternoon when I was a high school student selling Black Panther Party newspapers on the streets of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1971, I sat down on the curb and opened the tabloid ...

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Note: This program originally aired on Feb. 10, 2025. Reparations for African Americans has long been a sticking point for a redress to this nation’s reckoning ...

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 ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley has hailed passage of a UN resolution declaring the trafficking and enslavement of African people the "gravest crime against humanity." ...

Gov. Wes Moore’s stated rationale for vetoing SB 587, which would have established a commission to study the viability of and methodology for implementing a reparations policy in Maryland, is that he ...

On Black Lives Matter Day, we gather for a powerful online vigil and strategy session, "Do Black Lives Matter Yet? Continuing the Fight for Reparations." We will name the frustration of one step ...

Kansas City's reparations movement is moving ahead on two fronts, one rooted in community storytelling, the other in formal policy research. Both share a single aim: to educate the public on ...