No amount of money can pay for slavery and colonialism, and offering it, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. argues, is itself an insult. That was the premise the Ghanaian journalist and Pan-Africanist — widely known ...

Juneteenth has been celebrated in its home state of Texas since 1866, but it wouldn’t become a nationwide holiday until 2021 as racial tensions spiked in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.

“Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade:” A Transnational and Comparative History, 2nd. Ed., by Ana Lucia Araujo. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 344 pages. $31.45. (paperback). Slavery was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2021, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, became the first American city to offer reparations to its eligible African ...

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would ...

The New York City Council has joined its San Francisco counterpart in proposing potential financial reparations for the descendants of enslaved Americans. The year-long, $1.5 million task force would ...

Stephen Crowder sits down with a group of Black men for a raw and unfiltered discussion about reparations, history, and personal responsibility. The conversation dives into arguments for and against ...

Bring the history of the reparations movement in America into your classroom by exploring a rarely discussed chapter of California history—the hostility toward Black settlements. This adaptation of ...

This story was co-published with The Jersey Bee as part of our joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship, examining segregation in Newark and Essex County, New Jersey. Shortly after the Ku Klux Klan ...