Reparations task force established by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faces legal challenges from Judicial Watch and the ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in October hosted a meeting of a state-supported reparations committee, where two of its professors and one of its researchers advocated in favor of ...

For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real ...

A reparations program in Evanston, Illinois — designed to hand out $25,000 payments to black residents — is being sued because only black residents were allowed to apply. The Supreme Court’s decision ...

After a turbulent year marked by the rapid rollback of 60 years of civil rights gains, answering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to action for peace and restorative justice feels more urgent than ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- As a child, Robin Rue Simmons didn't know the Evanston neighborhood she called home was an area where Black families were once forced to live. Rue Simmons grew up just north of ...

Officials in the Chicago suburb of Evanston voted Monday to release the first batch of funds in a program offering reparations to Black residents whose families have felt the effects of decades of ...

FirstRepair, an Evanston-based nonprofit reparations organization, is hosting its fifth annual National Symposium for State and Local Reparations with the National African American Reparations ...