ABC News Live takes a closer look at Asheville's historic reparations plan. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- More than 150 years after emancipation, the city council in Asheville, North Carolina, voted this month ...

Although most stopped short of endorsing cash payments, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Housing and Urban ...

RECOMMENDATIONS. FOR THE HISTORIC STATEHOUSE WITH TRIBUTES TO MARYLAND FREEDOM FIGHTERS LIKE FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HARRIET TUBMAN IS MAKING HISTORY AGAIN. LAWMAKERS PUT A REPARATIONS BILL ON THE ...

House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of slaves. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is co-leading the ...

While the United States has never implemented a widespread slavery reparations program, the tide might be turning as several states and cities push proposals that would benefit descendants of slaves ...

The Decatur City Commission unanimously adopted a resolution on Monday to create the Decatur Reparations Task Force. The task force, which will have 11 members, will develop recommendations that will ...

MARYLAND (WBFF) — After a bill to create a Maryland Reparations Commission passed in the General Assembly, it remains unclear if Governor Wes Moore plans to sign it or not. The legislation would ...

Democratic leaders and activists are taking to Washington, D.C., to push for reparations legislation. Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, the distinguished Professor of Sociology behind the book Radical ...

Philadelphia city leaders unveiled the details and members of the new Philadelphia Reparations Task Force on Tuesday. The goal of the task force is to develop reparations proposals for Black ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, accompanied by state House Speaker Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia, and Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, delivers his budget address for the 2025-26 fiscal year to a joint ...

Some say reparations are needed to restore economic balance. In the early 20th century, Richard Givens, a Black man, toiled as a laborer in a box mill in Greensville County, Virginia. He earned $300 ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...