As 2025 draws to a close, San Francisco has made a significant move on the long-discussed issue of reparations for Black residents, establishing a dedicated Reparations Fund to address centuries of ...

The fund was set up in response to recommendations for single payments of as much as $5 million to any Black San Franciscans ...

The California Senate advanced a set of ambitious reparations proposals Tuesday, including legislation that would create an agency to help Black families research their family lineage and confirm ...

If it weren’t for all those white Americans who would have disagreed, former President Barack Obama would have pushed for the reparations black Americans deserve — or so the former president said this ...

OPINION: "An apology without action and a fund without an allocation are not reparations," the Rev. Amos C. Brown writes.

Juneteenth is a day that commemorates the formal emancipation of enslaved people in Texas by a Union general who took control of Galveston on June 19, 1865. Among the many legacies of the long history ...

One of the first school districts to pursue reparations for Black Americans is now pondering a proposal to offer cash payments to descendants of enslaved people. A small sliver of the K-12 world, ...

BALTIMORE — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s veto of a bill related to reparations payments for the descendants of slaves has raised eyebrows among some Black leaders in Baltimore. Moore vetoed Senate Bill ...

"The goal is simple and radical: create a New Jersey where Black people are free to flourish — and where everyone benefits when that happens." That's the assessment in an op-ed published by ...

Ryan Coleman is former president of the Randallstown NAACP. This week, he addresses the best ways to ensure a prosperous future of Black Marylanders. Credit: Courtesy photo I have always been about ...