Rep. Shri Thanedar introduced a federal reparations bill to create a commission studying land distribution for descendants of ...

San Francisco’s “Reparations Plan,” signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie late last year, intends to correct historic ills, but good ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Golden Gate Bridge stands in San Francisco, Calif. Photo: Sarah Roderick-Fitch / The Center Square (The Center Square) – A ...

As the country celebrates Juneteenth, marking the freedom of African American slaves, Black groups in New Jersey and New York are calling for the study of reparations. The Juneteenth March in Newark, ...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie approved a new law setting up a reparations fund to compensate for slavery and racial discrimination that passed the city’s Board of Supervisors earlier in December.

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against ...

The United States voted against a United Nations resolution this week to formally recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as ...

During a lull one afternoon when I was a high school student selling Black Panther Party newspapers on the streets of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1971, I sat down on the curb and opened the tabloid ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's been 80 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Decades later, the ...