City council members in Evanston, Illinois, approved a $400,000 reparations program for Black residents on Monday. Here's how it works. Photo: Alderman Robin Sue Simmons, who spearheaded a program for ...

Evanston, Illinois distributed $25,000 reparations payments to Black residents through nation's first municipal reparations program, with 137 recipients receiving $3.47 million total.

Cincinnati NAACP President David Whitehead urged reparations support while Santa Clara County explores compensation and ...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers in 2020 touted a law to create a “first in the nation” state task force to study and propose remedies to atone for the legacy of slavery. Four ...

Recently, Evanston, Ill., enacted the first reparations program in the country. San Francisco is following suit, but its reparations plan is less about policy and more about performance. What is being ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — This week, the state of California released the first-ever comprehensive look at the impact of 150 years of slavery on Black life in America. The 484-page report details the ...

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during a visit at the Community College of Philadelphia, on National Voter Registration Day, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17, ...

Signed into law by Gov. Bob Ferguson in May, the measure gives Washington the authority to examine how it might address the lasting impacts of slavery. Tucked inside Washington State’s newly approved ...