After a turbulent year marked by the rapid rollback of 60 years of civil rights gains, answering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to action for peace and restorative justice feels more urgent than ...

For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real ...

They've set up a protest site on the Ellipse near the White House. It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on ...

More than a decade ago, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successfully pushed reparations into the contemporary conversation with his ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Evanston is a Chicago suburb of 75,000 people, and it's about to do something no other city has done in the country: pay reparations to some of its Black residents. "Our goal here in ...

I’ve spent my adult life advocating for reparations, starting over 20 years ago as a student calling on the University of Alabama to honor the memory of two known enslaved people, Jack and Boysey, ...

Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist dismissed reparations as “yesterday’s fad,” praising Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for vetoing a bill that would have created a state commission to study them.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie quietly signed an ordinance in late December creating a reparations fund that could one day support payouts of up to $5 million per eligible black resident, even as he ...

ABC News Live takes a closer look at Asheville's historic reparations plan. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- More than 150 years after emancipation, the city council in Asheville, North Carolina, voted this month ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in October hosted a meeting of a state-supported reparations committee, where two of its professors and one of its researchers advocated in favor of ...

The New Jersey Reparations Council launched on Juneteenth its long-awaited report, "For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey. The report, put together over ...