Juneteenth has been celebrated in its home state of Texas since 1866, but it wouldn’t become a nationwide holiday until 2021 as racial tensions spiked in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.

Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California made history in 2020 with the creation of the nation's first state-level task force to study and develop reparations for the descendants of enslaved African Americans ...

The docuseries features one Black and one white filmmaker as they travel back to the American South. The King Center for Southern Studies at Mercer University has a new documentary on pursuing ...

In early 1926, Cafritz Construction placed an advertisement in The Washington Post celebrating the speed with which their “Life-time Homes” were selling in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Morris Griffin, wearing a sign that says “reparations now,” waits in a line to speak during public comment at a 2023 meeting of the California Reparations Task Force, held at the California ...

The story of Callie House and her efforts to organize Black Americans for reparations. Beginning in the 1800s, the reparations movement started with Mrs. Callie House, who led the National Ex-Slave ...

The New York City Council has joined its San Francisco counterpart in proposing potential financial reparations for the descendants of enslaved Americans. The year-long, $1.5 million task force would ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) -- On Wednesday, members of the California Legislative Black Caucus announced a package of reparations bills in a first effort to repair Black Californians harmed by the ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture shows exhibits of slavery, a lack of generational wealth and other economic discrimination that some states and cities are using to call for ...

The King Center For Southern Studies at Mercer University has a new documentary on finding reparations within American South. The Macon, Georgia-based school will host a screening of “Acts of ...