reparations

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

For years, Chicago cops tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Years later, the survivors fought for reparations.

In an effort to address centuries of systemic racism, a new online tool seeks to connect Black, brown, and Indigenous farmers with land and resources.

What does the institution owe the descendants of slaves?

It's time to acknowledge that White Catholics’ American dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.

The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).

In one of the most unique cases in the history of race riots, the African American businessperson sued his birthplace of Onancock, Virginia, in September 1910.

Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.

Matter-of-fact accounting of the legal mechanism of slavery provides insight into American history and the country’s fraught present.

A racist mob forced Opal Lee and her family from their Fort Worth home. Now she has been given the land and a new house is being built for her.

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

Across the Americas, emancipation moved slowly, and profited those who had benefited from slavery most.

Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush’s rich, and largely ignored, Black history.

The Washington state law provides low-interest loans for down payments for those harmed by racially restrictive covenants.

Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins.