reparations

50 years after native inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were forced out to make room for a military base, a Chagossian leader came to D.C. seeking reparations.

The U.S. government’s redress program for Japanese Americans showed that the money matters. But it’s not the only thing that matters.

San Francisco has proposed the nation’s most ambitious reparations plan, including $5 million cash payments and housing aid that aims to bring people back.

Reparations must be rooted in a political context that will safeguard rather than erode the gains they make towards justice.

Tufts Professor Kris Manjapra examines the history of the injustice of abolition in the U.S. and abroad and the need for reparations in his new book.

A movement to secure payments for descendants of enslaved people rages on.

A firebrand Haitian president tried to hold France to account for its years of exploitation. He soon found himself ousted from power.

A new book examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen’s case for reparations.

In 1921, a white mob attacked Greenwood, killing hundreds of Black people and destroying the neighborhood. Justice was never served. Can it still be today?

The $10 million initiative will provide housing and mortgage assistance to address discrimination.

The move by Jesuit priests is the largest such effort by the Roman Catholic Church and comes amid growing calls for reparations across the United States.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?

How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.

In fact, Black activists and civil rights leaders have been advocating for compensation for the trauma and cost of slavery for centuries.

The school has decided how much money we’re owed in reparations.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.

The American Descendants of Slavery movement combines a left-wing critique of America’s founding with a distinctly right-wing strain of xenophobia.