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 ...
WASHINGTON — Despite slim chances of passage and against the backdrop of anti-DEI efforts, some congressional Democrats continue to reintroduce reparations legislation that advocates hope will help ...
Ahhh, the curious silence. Buckle in for some historical details. Reparations for slavery are in the news, and yet again, there is a curious and very selective silence from those reparations ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Campaigners denounce Cecil Rhodes, leading light of the British Empire, beneath his statue at Oriel College, Oxford, in 2020 - ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by the legacy of slavery in the Garden State. The New ...
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 ...