Rev. Robert Turner, the pastor who has walked from Baltimore to the White House for 40 months, has concluded his monthly treks to bring attention to the need for federal reparations. Turner recently ...

If we accept the premise that Black peoples’ grievances with America began with enslavement in the U.S., then we are also accepting White people’s ability to define and shape our reality. The drive ...

Ahhh, the curious silence. Buckle in for some historical details. Reparations for slavery are in the news, and yet again, there is a curious and very selective silence from those reparations ...

The headstone of Frank, a "servant" of John Hancock, who was most likely enslaved, in the Granary Burying Ground beside the John Hancock monument. Forty acres and a mule. That’s what was promised to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reparations for slavery and historic discrimination against African Americans once seemed like a pipe dream. But momentum for it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 05: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks to supporters and employees of the U.S. Agency for International ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — It stands to be one of the most controversial moves by Congress this year. Two weeks ago, a historic vote by the House Judiciary Committee created a commission that could ultimately ...

A lawsuit filed by a conservative activist group claims a Chicago suburb discriminated against residents who are not Black when it paid nearly $5 million in reparations to some Black residents in ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign economist Larry Neal estimated in 1983 that America owed $1.4 trillion in reparations for Black descendants of enslaved people. Neal based this figure on the ...

This week: voter ID legislation advances, Illinois reparations expand, and a Savannah educator dies in an ICE-related crash.