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

During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a ...

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.

Sir Hilary McD. Beckles KA is Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission. 25.03.2024 It took all of the nineteenth ...

In the eyes of many black Americans, the United States needs to make a fundamental acknowledgement of slavery. For more and more blacks, an apology is not enough; that acknowledgement, they feel, ...

Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for Americans to make reparations for slavery. On June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties ...

Walking on the National Mall in Washington D.C. several weeks ago, I encountered one of the few things that come close to making me feel ashamed to be an American. It was Saturday, August 17th, and ...

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., DC, UNITED STATES, May 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As efforts for equity and inclusion face significant challenges, the U.S. reparations movement ...