New York lawmakers voted on a bill Thursday that would establish a commission to study the state's role in slavery and address lingering racial disparities.

EVANSTON, Ill. — This week, the state of California released the first-ever comprehensive look at the impact of 150 years of slavery on Black life in America. The 484-page report details the ...

The City of Evanston, Illinois' Reparations Committee issued $25,000 to 44 residents earlier this month in reparations' payments and is currently looking for other ways to keep the program funded.

Caricom delegation begins high-level meetings in London. The regional body at the forefront of the Caribbean’s push for slavery reparations is preparing for its first official mission to the United ...

On a sun-drenched morning at the Entim Sidai Wellness Sanctuary, thetranquil grounds came alive with music, memory, and movement as Africa'sfirst-ever reparations festival officially opened. But this ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 22, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: March 23, 1946 ...

After decades of languishing as something of a fringe idea, the call for reparations really caught steam in the late 1980s through the '90s. Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers first introduced a bill ...

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 ...