For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reparations for slavery and historic discrimination against African Americans once seemed like a pipe dream. But momentum for it ...

St. Paul’s reparations commission plans to contract with a research company for a “harm study” examining the impact of “historic and ongoing harms” suffered by the city’s Black descendants of chattel ...

Lee Hawkins's book argues for expanding the reparations debate to include survivors of the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era subjected Black people to racial segregation, violence, and systemic ...

The Maryland House of Delegates gave its final seal of approval Wednesday to the bill establishing a statewide reparations commission following more than an hour of discussion. The Maryland ...

A state task force had been split on who should receive reparations. A California task force’s decision to limit reparations for slavery to people who can trace their lineage to free and enslaved ...

(RNS) — At the height of the anti-racism protests following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the idea of reparations for Black Americans for the long shadow of slavery gained traction. State and ...