Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced. Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the ...

Cell phones are a big deal, but to some of us the transistor was an even bigger deal. I was disobeying my parents staying up late (school night) in my bedroom listening to clear channel WLS in Chicago ...

Evanston’s Reparations Committee announced Feb. 5 it will issue reparation payments to 44 additional descendants this summer, while providing an update on its DNA Roots Program and exploring a ...

Historical injustices such as slavery and colonialism are not just matters of the past but active forces shaping present-day inequality and development, according to new legal research published in a ...

The Evanston Reparations Committee will issue payments to 44 more community members this year, it announced at its Thursday morning meeting. Residents assigned selection numbers 127 through 171 are ...

The reparations fund creates a framework but does not allocate any city money for direct payments. Supporters call it a step forward, while critics warn of legal risks, bureaucracy, and potential ...

A Maryland commission recently concluded that state leaders and institutions were complicit in 38 lynchings and the widespread racial terror that followed the Civil ...

For most of the post-independence era, debates over colonial reparations were confined to university halls, activist statements, or sporadic diplomatic remarks. That is no longer the case. In recent ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Reparations for Black San Franciscans are back on the table after the Board of Supervisors gave final approval Tuesday of an ordinance to create a fund aimed at addressing harms ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies is traveling the state hearing from residents and experts as it prepares a report on the legacy of slavery, ...

Reparation Generation, a national nonprofit, aims to help Black descendants of enslaved people in the U.S. purchase homes in metro Detroit with $25,000 and genealogy consultation. The nonprofit seeks ...