Although slavery was never legal in California, the state is playing a pivotal role in the middle of a red-hot national debate that could force California insurance companies to pay billions of ...

DURHAM, NC (WTVD) -- In the audience and on stage at Duke Monday night sat African-American students, scholars and everyday residents whose ancestors never received their 40 acres and a mule. It was ...

The debate over reparations for descendants of slaves catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover and others for lawmakers to address ...

“Slavery was standard practice throughout human history until it was ended by White people.” This incendiary remark posted by Elon Musk on X captures precisely why our society remains ill-equipped for ...

Campaigners denounce Cecil Rhodes, leading light of the British Empire, beneath his statue at Oriel College, Oxford, in 2020 - John Nguyen/JNVisuals The death, in May 2020, of George Floyd, at the ...

American slavery ended with the Civil War but the debate about moral responsibility continues. Workers enslaved by Nazi Germany will finally be paid for their suffering, and Japanese Americans have ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation’s only ...

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

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 ...

Pushback against a Church of England plan to pay £100 million to benefit communities affected by the historic transatlantic ...

WASHINGTON — The debate over reparations for descendants of slaves catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover and others for lawmakers ...