Baltimore City’s reparations fund is in limbo amid confusion over how much money it includes and where it can be spent. The Baltimore City fiscal year 2026 budget, signed by Mayor Brandon Scott on ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Advocates for reparations talk to Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles) at the state Capitol on Saturday. (Laurel Rosenhall / ...
Growingup,I heard the phrase “40 acres and a mule” from all the adults in my life, usually in the context of an unkept promise. “We’re still waiting for our 40 acres,” they’d say, referring to yet ...
The quest to understand reparations requires a studious scrutiny of American history. Let’s go back just two weeks. On June 7, Annelise Finney reported on how far behind the Alameda County commission, ...
More than a decade ago, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successfully pushed reparations into the contemporary conversation with his ...
Residents in Evanston, Illinois, expressed their frustration Thursday over the slow pace of the city’s historic reparations program, claiming officials would rather “showboat” and mug for the media ...
George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a counterfeit $20 bill, died as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers in 2020 touted a law to create a "first in the nation" state task force to study and propose remedies to atone for the legacy of slavery. Four years later, ...