“Slavery was standard practice throughout human history until it was ended by White people.” This incendiary remark posted by Elon Musk on X captures precisely why our society remains ill-equipped for ...

The 2026 edition of the International Reparation Debate Competition (IRDC), organized by the Centre for Reparation Research at The University of the West Indies, has successfully wrapped up its ...

The debate over reparations for descendants of slaves catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover and others for lawmakers to address ...

Juneteenth on Saturday — a newly minted federal holiday — commemorates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. 156 years ago. But more than a century and a half after slavery ...

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

Torrey Snow is correct to realize that the discussion of slavery in our country is a complex issue and debate over reparations is bound to be divisive (“What’s lost in the reparations debate,” Dec. 17 ...

In a heated debate last night, Dorothy Lewis — a leader in the movement for reparations for slavery — and David Horowitz — the movement's most outspoken antagonist — presented their views to a packed ...

San Francisco has taken one of the most aggressive steps in the national reparations debate, approving a new fund that could eventually deliver up to $5 million per eligible Black resident. The ...

A Black Lives Matter street renaming (photo: Ed Reed/Mayor's Office) In his third inaugural address on January 1, 1986, Mayor Ed Koch remarked that "New York is the city where the future comes to ...

After the election of a new Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, lawmakers started debating what vetoes from Gov. Wes Moore to override during the one-day special session. Including a bill to ...

Reparations to Africa : a new kind of justice -- African voices -- Genesis of the reparations movement -- The social movement for reparations to Africa : comparison to Holocaust reparations -- ...