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 ...

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

For centuries, the transatlantic slave trade has been treated as history — a horrific chapter to be memorialized but not rectified. Last week at the United Nations General Assembly, Ghana’s president, ...

University of Illinois professors advocate for collective reparations at Illinois meeting, calling for community payments beyond individual compensation.

New legislation authored by a San Diego lawmaker and just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom creates an agency that will take key first steps toward reparations for Black Californians whose ancestors were ...

Naming the slave trade humanity’s “greatest crime,” African leaders at the UN are pushing for reparations, a debt long denied to Black people. For centuries, the transatlantic slave trade has been ...