More than a decade ago, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successfully pushed reparations into the contemporary conversation with his ...
For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's been 80 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Decades later, the ...
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie approved a new law setting up a reparations fund to compensate for slavery and racial discrimination that passed the city’s Board of Supervisors earlier in December.
American slavery ended with the Civil War but the debate about moral responsibility continues. Workers enslaved by Nazi Germany will finally be paid for their suffering, and Japanese Americans have ...
The mayor of San Francisco signed an ordinance that creates a "Reparations Fund" that could one day grant each of the city's eligible Black residents up to $5 million in reparations for alleged ...
The reparations fund creates a framework but does not allocate any city money for direct payments. Supporters call it a step forward, while critics warn of legal risks, bureaucracy, and potential ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reparations for slavery and historic discrimination against African Americans once seemed like a pipe dream. But momentum for it ...
The effort to provide reparations to Black San Franciscans is another step closer to becoming a reality after the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to establish the Reparations Fund at its ...
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 ...
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders caused a stir when he told Fusion that he does not support reparations for slavery on the grounds that such a program would be “very divisive” and ...