WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday rejected reparations for slavery in part because it would be hard to know whom to pay. The Kentucky Republican spoke to reporters on the ...

An Illinois city chose 16 residents to receive $25,000 each in reparations in a first-in-the-nation program to address harms from slavery to discriminatory housing policies. The money from the fund, ...

Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren has added “gay and lesbian couples” to the growing list of groups for whom she would support reparations. She also floated the idea of reparations to Native ...

California’s reparations task force voted in favor of multiple recommendations Saturday that could cut a minimum of $360,000 in checks to its eligible black residents. The nine-member committee gave ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...

When photographer Dee Dwyer attended the Rally 4 Reparations in Washington, D.C., she heard from people across the country about what reparations from slavery in the United States means to them. Here ...

Not long after Raphael Prober joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in 2008, he was asked to head a pro bono project advocating for Holocaust survivors who were seeking reparations from France’s ...

In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “The Case for Reparations” went viral. Tracing everything from the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing ...

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 ...

Ms. Cheeks is the author of the novel “Acts of Forgiveness.” In my debut novel, a family retraces their lineage in order to be eligible for the nation’s first federal reparations program for Black ...