(Reuters) -After California state legislators passed bills addressing the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the most ambitious of the reparations proposals. The ...

Why did a bill to create a state reparations agency, the centerpiece of California’s initial attempt to introduce legislation to repair harm endured by Black Californians, fail? SB 1403 would have ...

Located near Hayward in Alameda County, Russell City was once home to mostly Black, Latino and poor white families boxed out of other Bay Area neighborhoods by redlining and the cost of living. But in ...

Once the panel is established, it will have about a year to determine what reparations should look like in the city. By Jesus Jiménez The mayor of Chicago signed an executive order on Monday to ...

The search to better understand his roots took Paul Thomas Harper to his late grandmother’s attic in St. Paul, Minnesota. There, among the letters and photographs, he found clues that, once plugged ...

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., held back tears as she officially introduced H.R. 40, legislation that has been advocated in Congress for more than 30 years. “It is an honor,” Pressley said during ...

City lawmakers passed a controversial bill Thursday to create a reparations task force in New York City — which could lead to proposals to spend billions in taxpayer money as compensation for slavery ...

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The decision on a reparations loan for Ukraine secured by frozen Russian assets in Europe is being delayed. Read below how critical this is for a country at war, and whether there are any alternatives ...