Reparations

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April 25, 2023
Palms Springs officials have apologized for the city's role in what one state official called a “city-engineered holocaust” in an…
Senate candidate suggests reparations for white people
April 25, 2023
A Republican Senate candidate in Ohio wants reparations for white descendants of Union soldiers who died in the Civil War.
Political commentator Matt Walsh
April 4, 2023
Matt Walsh argues that the world is better off now because slavery existed in the past and that Black people…
March 29, 2023
It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate...
March 26, 2023
A jurisdiction of Episcopal churches in New York is taking action and apologizing for its role in the transatlantic slave…
March 16, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors have backed the idea of paying reparations to Black people, but whether members…
February 24, 2023
After decades of stalling, reparations for slavery has received new interest amid a national reckoning over the police killing of…
Evanston Reparations Committee
January 11, 2023
Evanston Reparations Committee, established in 2019, initially set aside $10 million to help Black residents fight housing discrimination.
January 2, 2023
President Joe Biden this week commemorated the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
December 15, 2022
California’s task force on reparations began deliberations Wednesday to quantify how financial compensation might be calculated and what might be…
Tishaura O. Jones
December 9, 2022
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is appointing a reparations commission that will “recommend a proposal to begin repairing the harms…
November 28, 2022
Barbados could make a wealthy Conservative member of parliament the first individual to pay for his family's role in slavery,.
November 7, 2022
Envoys from around the globe gathered Sunday in Egypt for talks on tackling climate change amid a multitude of competing…
October 15, 2022
Tuberville said those who support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people “they think the people that do the crime…
October 1, 2022
The coalition, which sent a letter to Newsom with other organizations asking him to veto the bill, tweeted in celebration…
Callie House
September 30, 2022
Two Harvard professors sent a petition to President Biden seeking a pardon for the civil rights icon, who was convicted…
September 13, 2022
The Netherlands would be among the first European nations to reserve money to launch legacy initiatives as an apology for…
The state seal of Rhode Island
August 26, 2022
Providence’s mayor proposed spending $10 million in federal coronavirus pandemic aid on financial literacy and homeownership, workforce training and other…
The state seal of Rhode Island
August 24, 2022
A new report suggests ways Providence, Rhode Island, can atone for its extensive ties to the transatlantic slave trade and centuries…
California - Black employee lineage
August 17, 2022
California is the first state to require its agencies to include a separate category for employees who are descendants of…