Some African elites benefited from slave trade and colonisation. This must be taken into account in reparation debates.

The last few years have seen a revival of the debate over reparations for slavery and its aftermath in the United States. Despite renewed interest in the topic and the aftermath of the racial ...

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.

During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a ...

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Note: This program originally aired on Feb. 10, 2025. Reparations for African Americans has long been a sticking point for a redress to this nation’s reckoning ...

In the eyes of many black Americans, the United States needs to make a fundamental acknowledgement of slavery. For more and more blacks, an apology is not enough; that acknowledgement, they feel, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several African countries have erected memorials to the victims of slavery, such as this statue in Senegal [AFP via Getty Images] ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Janay Reliford, who chairs the Kansas City Reparations Coalition, spoke at the Black Archives of Mid-America last year. She spends ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., DC, UNITED STATES, May 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As efforts for equity and inclusion face significant challenges, the U.S. reparations movement ...

FirstRepair, an Evanston-based nonprofit reparations organization, is hosting its fifth annual National Symposium for State and Local Reparations with the National African American Reparations ...