Reparations

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October 8, 2025
Naming the slave trade humanity’s “greatest crime,” Ghana is pushing for reparations, a debt long denied to Black people, at…
Wes Moore, Black governors, reparations, theGrio.com
May 17, 2025
The bill was introduced in this year's legislative session as a top priority of the Legislative Black Caucus.
Summer Lee, Reparations NOW Resolution, theGrio.com
May 16, 2025
The 37-year-old millennial congresswoman called for "Reparations now, not later, not someday, and not when it's politically convenient."
Cory Booker, theGrio.com
May 13, 2025
The coalition says there is no better time to push for reparations as Trump continues to attack DEI and once-protected…
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May 10, 2025
Maryland supporters urge Gov. Wes Moore to sign bill creating a commission to study slavery reparations and systemic racism.
April 22, 2025
Miller's comments were called "appalling" as the issue is "something Black communities have spent generations fighting for."
California state capitol, theGrio.com
March 6, 2025
California became the first state to pass into law a reparations task force and the first state to introduce a…
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December 4, 2024
Activists are calling on President Biden to tackle a range of racial justice actions before the Trump administration takes office.
Reparations, slavery, California, college admissions, theGrio.com
December 3, 2024
Democratic Assemblymember Isaac Bryan said the bill would help rectify past and current discrimination at universities.
Palm Springs reparations, theGrio.com
November 14, 2024
The $5.9 million settlement will go toward compensating former residents and descendants whose families were displaced in the 1960s.
Philadelphia prison, reparations, theGrio.com
October 24, 2024
Thousands of people at Holmesburg Prison were exposed to painful skin tests, anesthesia-free surgery and harmful radiation for research.
Kamala Harris, Charlamagne Tha God, The Breakfast Club, theGrio.com
October 16, 2024
A reparations clip on TheGrio was taken out of context. Charlamagne Tha God discusses in his interview with VP Kamala…
Kamala Harris, theGriio.com
September 18, 2024
During an interview with NABJ and WHYY, Harris talked about race more extensively than she had since emerging as a…
September 13, 2024
The package of bills would follow in the footsteps of several other U.S. cities that have sought ways to address…
California reparations, theGrio.com
September 3, 2024
Last week, lawmakers approved a groundbreaking set of bills to atone for California's legacy of discriminatory policies.
Joe Biden, Juneteenth, theGrio.com
August 9, 2024
TheGrio reports the White House met with activists in a last-ditch effort to create a reparations commission before he leaves…
Sheila Jackson Lee, reparations, theGrio.com.
August 2, 2024
TheGrio asked the White House whether President Biden would reconsider his position on HR 40 to honor the late Sheila…
California state Sen. Steven Bradford
May 22, 2024
California state Sen. Steven Bradford says his state “bears great responsibility” to atone for injustices against Black Californians.
April 28, 2024
Tennessee’s Republican-dominant House spiked legislation that would have banned local governments from commissioning reparations efforts.
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons speaks at a press conference with survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre
April 3, 2024
The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard oral arguments from attorneys representing the last two living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race…