“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” When we accept that prestigious offer of admission from Princeton ...

It’s been nearly 105 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre claimed the lives of hundreds of Black Tulsans. Over the course of two days in 1921, a mob of White people terrorized and burned down a ...

Africa wins UN recognition of slavery as a crime. Backlash grows as debates over reparations and accountability intensify.

African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be ...

One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are born out of separation and inequality, but the racial divide is born out of sin. One way to capture it is to say that the other divides are ...

Dorothy Brown, a Georgetown University law professor, lays out a case for reparations in her new book Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past.

The idea of giving Black people reparations for slavery dates back to right after the end of the Civil War (think 40 acres and a mule). For decades, it's mostly been an idea debated outside the ...

Africa has made many demands of the world over the decades. Few have carried the moral clarity and political weight of the one now taking shape: a unified continental claim for reparations from ...

While the measure is being considered by local and state governments across the country, reparations advocates face an uphill battle in some cities, yet remain hopeful. Cincinnati NAACP President ...