California introduces first-in-nation slavery reparations package

The set of bills notably excludes direct cash payments.

Ethiopian prince’s hair, artefacts returned 155 years after British plunder

Prince Alemayehu, 7, was taken to England after battle of Magdala and died there in 1879 at the age of 18.

California's earliest Black settlers bought land only for it to be stolen. Their descendants want it back.

Former slaves who came to California mined for gold and bought property, only for their land to be stolen or seized. Their families, generations later, say it's time for a reckoning.

Japanese Americans won redress, fight for Black reparations

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Miya Iwataki and other Japanese Americans fought in the 1980s for the U.S. government to apologize to the families it imprisoned during World War II, Black politicians and civil rights leaders were integral to the movement.

Two men acquitted of Malcom X murder to receive $36m

The two men, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, always maintained they did not kill the civil rights leader in 1965.

Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations

BARRE, Mass. (AP) — One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerged from the dark, cluttered display cases where they’ve sat for more than a century in a museum in rural Massachusetts.

New reparations focus: Black enclaves lost to development

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Terrell Osborne knows well what happens when urban renewal comes to communities of color. As a child growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1950s and 1960s, huge swaths of his neighborhood of Lippitt Hill, a center...

Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young person. But it was only after she finished high school, left her

Reparations for Black Residents Are Becoming a Local Issue as Well as a National One

While legislation in Washington remains stalled, state and local governments are breathing new life into the reparations movement.

Opinion | 20 Years After 9/11, Reparations for Afghanistan and an End to War

The only way to combat terrorism is to end these wars for vengeance and profit.

The US Owes Reparations to Afghan Women, Starting With an Open Borders Policy

Implementing an open borders policy for Afghan refugees is one way the U.S. must hold itself accountable for the war.

Spain Pledged Citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Now They Feel Betrayed.

In 2015, Spain said it would give citizenship to the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled during the Spanish Inquisition. Then rejections started pouring in this summer.

The Louvre’s Art Sleuth Is on the Hunt for Looted Paintings

Emmanuelle Polack is the face of the French museum’s efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation.

Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends?

Stacie Marshall, who inherited a Georgia farm, is trying on a small scale to address a generations-old wrong that still bedevils the nation.

Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations

The Virginia Theological Seminary is giving cash to descendants of Black Americans who were forced to work there. The program is among the first of its kind.

Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations

The Virginia Theological Seminary is giving cash to descendants of Black Americans who were forced to work there. The program is among the first of its kind.

100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like?

In 1921, a white mob attacked the Greenwood district of Tulsa, killing hundreds of Black people and destroying the neighborhood. Justice has never been served. Can it still be today?