The California Senate advanced a set of ambitious reparations proposals Tuesday, including legislation that would create an agency to help Black families research their family lineage and confirm ...

Part five of “Uncounted Millions: The Power of Reparations.” The Coakleys showed us what could have been had reparations been granted. Will it ever happen? Can reparations be a reality for all Black ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a handful of bills on Thursday that stemmed from a yearslong effort to issue lineage-based reparations for the state’s Black residents and their descendants.

On Thursday morning, state Sen. Steven Bradford sat down alone at a table inside the Capitol in Sacramento. He fiddled with a stack of papers while waiting for reporters in the room to quiet down and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Britney Porter offers strategies and insights for achieving success. In 1865, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman arranged a ...

The reparations commission approved by the state legislature is a bold step that may empower a group of people who have been historically disadvantaged. It may also harden racial divisions and harm ...

The U.S. is currently in a profoundly divisive era across political and cultural lines. Nowhere is this clearer than in the ongoing and coordinated assault on equity, including the backlash against ...

Andre Baldwin, a 9th grader in Philadelphia, spoke at a reparations task force meeting in City Hall last month. Attempts at seeking reparation for slavery has been a non-starter in Congress. Multiple ...

Five years and $5 million after Evanston became the first municipality in the country to pass a reparations ordinance to counter the effects of historic discrimination against African-Americans, the ...