Researchers at Cal State Northridge this week unveiled the first city-sponsored report on potential reparations to Black residents for the discriminatory harms they faced over the last 100 years.
There have been renewed calls in support of reparations for Black Americans following recent protests against police brutality and amid the economic crisis of the coronavirus. While the idea goes back ...
Kerry Whigham is affiliated with the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. Between 1904 and 1908, German soldiers and settler colonists killed about half of all Nama ...
Republicans have criticized recent estimates of what Black Americans are owed in reparations. But for Democrats, they pose deeper problems for a party eager to retain the allegiance of Black voters.
A new bill would calculate potential costs of reparations — and by Yahoo Finance estimates, these could reach as high as $17.1 trillion. Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution ...
If you feel like you’re hearing more about slavery reparations, it’s not your imagination. The widespread protests against police brutality and racial injustice following the death of George Floyd ...
In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “The Case for Reparations” went viral. Tracing everything from the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing ...
The death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has set off a period of public mourning and celebrations of life. But even as many lauded Elizabeth for her 70-year reign, for some — including those from ...
Ten years ago, the idea of “reparations” sat on the political fringes in America. The question of whether or not compensation should once have been paid to former slaves had died out. Not least ...
Subramaniam Vincent is leading projects for Journalism & Media Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. “Reparations include the means by which a society attempts to ...
Born as a white girl in the segregated South, I’ve spent most of my adulthood as a Jewish woman in Berlin. This double perspective has fueled my resolve to explore America’s fraught relationship with ...