reparations

California has set aside millions of dollars to pay reparations to victims of coerced sterilization who were deemed unfit to have children decades.

A first-in-the-nation task force in California to study and recommend reparations for African Americans met for the first time Tuesday.

San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously appointed 15 people to the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee — touted as the first body of its kind to create a comprehensive reparations plan for African Americans.

A House panel has advanced a decades-long effort to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves, approving legislation Wednesday night that would create a commission to study the issue.

Undergraduate students at Brown University have voted overwhelmingly that the institution should offer reparations to descendants of slaves who were affiliated with the school and its founders, NBC News reports.

Much of the divisive nature of reparations stems from no one being quite clear on what manner those reparations would take. Visions of every Black American receiving a check in the mailbox puts many back on their heels. California Assemblywoman Shirley Weber says that’s the last thing she believes most Black Americans want or need.

There’s been a surge of interest in the past year among U.S. religious groups in the area of racism-linked reparations.

Following a year of massive protests against systemic racism, the long-discussed possibility of slavery reparations for Black Americans is closer than ever to becoming reality. But how would that work, and what would it cost? As Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors told NBCLX’s Chase Cain, reparations are about more than just money.

California will develop a detailed plan for reparations under a new law signed on Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, making it the first state to mandate a study of how it can make amends for its role in the oppression of Black people.

California will develop detailed proposals for granting reparations to Black Americans under a new law.

California lawmakers are setting up a task force to study and make recommendations for reparations to African Americans, particularly the descendants of slaves, as the nation struggles again with civil rights and unrest following the latest shooting of a Black man by police

Officials in Evanston, Ill. are proposing sale tax from the sales of cannabis be used to fund a proposal for reparations.

Officials in the North Carolina city of Asheville have apologized for its historic role in slavery and discrimination and voted to provide reparations. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that unanimous vote was taken by the City Council on Tuesday. The resolution on reparations does not require direct payments but will mandate investments in areas where Black residents face disparities. “Hundreds of years...

In 1838, Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to the state of Louisiana. The New York Times spoke with their descendants who are set to become the first recipients of reparations in the United States.

California’s Legislative Black Caucus is prioritizing a package of bills for this year that include police reform, a task force to study reparations and a repeal of California’s controversial 1996 law barring affirmative action at colleges following the police killing of George Floyd.

Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, told CNBC on Monday the U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality. The wealth divide and police brutality against blacks are at the heart of protests that have erupted across the nation following last week’s killing of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis. “Now is the...

The promise of reparations to atone for historical ties to slavery has opened new territory in a reckoning at U.S. colleges, which until now have responded with monuments, building name changes and public apologies. Georgetown University and two theological seminaries have announced funding commitments to benefit descendants of the enslaved people who were sold or toiled to benefit the institutions. While...

Leaders of San Francisco’s African American community are calling on the city’s Board of Supervisors to use the income from hotel and marijuana taxes to fund reparations. According to the NAACP San Francisco branch, the reparations would be used to make amends for the city’s historic injustices against its black residents. “Here we are at the end of 2019...