As the United Nations recognises the transatlantic slave trade as a crime and calls for reparations, a growing ‘global diasporic movement’ is pushing for action ...

For 40 months, Rev. Robert Turner walked nearly 43 miles from Baltimore to the White House. He walked in rain, endured sleet and pushed through snow — without sponsors, security or pay. “I’m inspired ...

Scott Trust identifies priorities for communities in Jamaica and US Sea Islands with plans to allocate millions of pounds ...

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

(Reuters) -Hundreds of environmental and human rights groups have urged COP30, the global climate summit to be held in Brazil this November, to confront the historical roots of the climate crisis, and ...

Introduction In the grand ledger of history, some debts are too vast to quantify and too consequential to ignore .

I’ve spent my adult life advocating for reparations, starting over 20 years ago as a student calling on the University of Alabama to honor the memory of two known enslaved people, Jack and Boysey, ...

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.

Michael Thompson was sentenced to 25 years in prison for selling three pounds of cannabis to a police informant, while the ...

Summary: The Gambia begins paying reparations to more than 1,000 victims of Jammeh-era abuses, following a 237 million dalasi ($3.7 million) recommendation. The country is also moving toward ...

Last September, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would conduct its first federal review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. On Friday, the DOJ released the findings from its review — only ...