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

A Georgetown University Law Center professor argued there is a historical precedent for paying reparations for the United States’ long history of enslaving Black people in a new book published Jan. 20 ...

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

Advocates for reparations, who have struggled to enact key pieces of their agenda, don't appear likely to have a strong ...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a mixed bag Monday for proponents of bills aimed at addressing the state’s legacy of racist and discriminatory policies against Black Americans.He signed a law ...

The Democratic mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, released a plan seeking to compensate descendants of residents affected by racial violence over a century ago. On Sunday, Mayor Monroe Nichols announced Road ...

Last week, on the popular radio show “The Breakfast Club," Sen. Kamala Harris of California agreed with a host’s suggestion that government reparations for black Americans were necessary to address ...

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 ...

Two years ago, California released the first-of-its-kind report, documenting harms committed by the government against Black residents — just as the nation’s highest court was dealing a devastating ...

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols on Sunday unveiled a $105 million reparations plan for the descendants of the Tulsa race massacre -- the deadly 1921 attack by a white mob on the Oklahoma city's Greenwood ...

From the very first day of the 2020 presidential race, when Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts blamed “generations of discrimination” for black families earning far less than white households, ...