Representative Summer Lee has reintroduced a historic reparations resolution in the 119th Congress amid mounting demands for ...

Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, the distinguished Professor of Sociology behind the book Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation, is in Washington, D.C., to advance his ongoing push for ...

WASHINGTON — Despite slim chances of passage and against the backdrop of anti-DEI efforts, some congressional Democrats continue to reintroduce reparations legislation that advocates hope will help ...

DETROIT, MICHIGAN - OCTOBER 15: Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and Charlamagne Tha God pose for a photo before "We The People: An Audio Townhall With Kamala Harris ...

The 37-year-old millennial congresswoman called for “Reparations now, not later, not someday, and not when it’s politically convenient.” U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., proposed a resolution this week ...

A nonprofit organization supporting the Black community in Kentucky said they received a "six-figure reparations payment" from a white American who recently discovered her ancestor enslaved people in ...

Then St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones appointed members of the City of St. Louis’ first Reparations Commission established by Executive Order in December 2022. The volunteer commission was created to ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign did not reveal her position on reparations for Black Americans when asked Wednesday by Fox News Digital, despite growing anticipation from progressive advocates ...

America didn’t formally apologize for slavery until 2008– the same year former President Barack Obama was elected. The next major step towards justice for the descendants of slavery happened in ...

Mayor Eric Adams has signaled his support for the bill. New York City legislation that would allow for the study of the city’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and the consideration of ...

When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a bill late last year to form a state task force to study slavery reparations, advocates won a hard-fought battle they had lost at the national level just ...

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