The leaders have asked for apologies from the countries that benefited from the slave trade, as well as debt relief and financial compensation.

The U.N. General Assembly voted to declare the African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity" on Wednesday, March 25. The vote also included a resolution calling for reparations. The vote ...

The United Nations has taken a major step in trying to correct a historic wrong. It has called for reparations for African nations that were subjected to the transatlantic slave trade and voted to ...

During a 1998 trip to Uganda, President Bill Clinton provided what many historians considered to be the first apology by the United States for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Speaking ...

The international movement for reparations for slavery is taking another step forward as Jamaica steps up its efforts to ...

Descendants of enslaved Africans say symbolic apologies cannot repair generations of loss and injustice.

Two years ago, the release of a documentary in Spain set off a fiery debate in the region of Catalonia that is still simmering. The film, “Negrers: La Catalunya esclavista,” or “Slavers: Catalonia and ...