The Evanston Reparations Committee advanced a new tax on Delta-8 THC products and a $310,000 allocation from a city property sale, both of which would expand the city’s reparations fund. The committee ...
The United Nations has taken a major step in trying to correct a historic wrong. It’s calling for reparations for African nations that were subjected to the transatlantic slave trade, after voting to ...
A landmark UN resoultion has intensified the debate over reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, with supporters arguing that recognition, apologies and structural reforms are long overdue. The ...
NEW YORK — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete ...
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has revived a controversial benefit program once lauded as a step toward “reparations” for black San Franciscans. Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaking at a ...
More than five years after Evanston’s Reparations Program made national history as the first-ever government-funded initiative to compensate longtime Black residents for suffering housing ...
The Cincinnati City Council will consider in early March a reparations housing program that would use tax revenue on marijuana to fund a portion of it. The city is expected to discuss the "Cincinnati ...
A Black community in Illinois may finally be getting reparations. This month, as we celebrate Black History Month, Black Evanston residents are celebrating the recently approved reparations program.
Amid the cool afternoon breeze Jan. 25, I stepped into the warmth of an assembly hall where everyone seemed to know each other. Greetings to old friends and community church members echoed under the ...
Members of the Society of St. Justin Martyr are reclaiming England’s Catholic history through prayer. Members of the Society of St. Justin Martyr are photographed after prayers at the relics of St.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) speaks in September outside St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baltimore. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) vetoed legislation this ...