Some African elites benefited from slave trade and colonisation. This must be taken into account in reparation debates.

Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist dismissed reparations as “yesterday’s fad,” praising Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for vetoing a bill that would have created a state commission to study them.

The House Judiciary Committee heard arguments on Wednesday that would study the effects of slavery and discrimination in the US and would recommend appropriate remedies. House Resolution 40 would not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several African countries have erected memorials to the victims of slavery, such as this statue in Senegal [AFP via Getty Images] ...

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 ...

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Note: This program originally aired on Feb. 10, 2025. Reparations for African Americans has long been a sticking point for a redress to this nation’s reckoning ...

As global row intensifies, Reform UK has said it would not issue visas for people from any country seeking reparations ...

Gov. Wes Moore’s stated rationale for vetoing SB 587, which would have established a commission to study the viability of and methodology for implementing a reparations policy in Maryland, is that he ...

Reform UK proposes visa ban on countries demanding slavery reparations, drawing global backlash from Caribbean leaders and ...

The contemporary Black reparations movement is moving in two different but dialectically linked trajectories. Over the last decade, the struggle for reparations has moved beyond the African American ...

During a lull one afternoon when I was a high school student selling Black Panther Party newspapers on the streets of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1971, I sat down on the curb and opened the tabloid ...