A group of scholars and lawmakers in California just voted to advance a plan to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved people in the state. Coming at the end of a two-year-process, the momentous ...

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California’s Reparations Task Force on Saturday approved a detailed plan that, if enacted, could see the state dole out hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations payments to black residents.

New York's reparations commission will hold its third meeting in New Rochelle and Syracuse on Tuesday as it prepares to study the lasting harms of slavery and discrimination on Black New Yorkers and ...

California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations voted Tuesday to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — American Public Square by Jewell hosted a panel in Kansas City Wednesday night on whether Black residents should receive reparations and what form they should take. There were a lot ...

The California Reparations Task Force formally recommended that the state offer payments of up to $1.2 million to every qualifying Black resident. The task force held a public meeting in Oakland, ...

The Boston task force charged with recommending reparations suggestions will ask Mayor Michelle Wu to consider a temporary halt to her plan to give away vacant city properties. At her inaugural State ...

The city panel tasked with recommending reparations for Black Bostonians is launching its delayed historical research project and acknowledging potential deadline extensions. The delayed start of the ...

Members of a state reparations task force hold a public hearing at San Diego State University in February. Photo by Ariana Drehsler for CalMatters The California Reparations Task Force has approved ...

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