reparations

Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.

A century ago, a false accusation sparked the destruction of the Florida community.

In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions in uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?

An enslaved woman’s experience with General Sherman’s army.

A new documentary tells the story of the last known slave ship to enter the United States and takes on the difficult question of how to memorialize America’s history of racial violence.

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”

Joan Scott’s "On the Judgment of History" asks us to imagine the past without the idea of progress. But what gets left out in the process?

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

The 1954 US nuclear tests absolutely devastated the small island nation, but the US has steadfastly refused to make real amends for it.

The United States confined 2,200 Latin Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. They’re still pushing for redress.

In June 1942, Kenji and just over one hundred other children were taken from their parents and relocated to Manzanar.

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

What the Dred Scott v. Sandford case meant for black citizenship.

A new PBS documentary investigates the legacy of one of the most dangerous pollutants on the planet, an unsettling cover-up, and the fight for accountability.

Most Black Tulsans in 1921 were working class. But these days, it seems like the fate of those few blocks in and around “Black Wall Street” is all that matters.

U.S. nuclear weapons testing displaced residents of the Marshall Islands. They're still fighting for justice for the devastation of their homeland and health.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

A history of the United States shifting the financial burden of emancipation onto enslaved people.

Cornell University's past and current wealth is tied to the dispossession of Indigenous groups from their land.

The backstory to the backstory of America’s mythic promise.