Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

Last December, nonprofit executive director Malik Yakini received an unexpected call. The caller, a woman who resides in California, said she wanted to direct a sizeable portion of her inheritance to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “I was born for this—and I know exactly what I’m doing.” Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, ...

The Olympia City Council is set to discuss city-scale actions from around the country that could provide reparations to the descendants of enslaved African people in Olympia when it holds a June 24 ...

When Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination in 2020, he said the nation was issuing "the most compelling call for racial justice since the '60s." Months later after winning the presidency, he ...

(RNS) — At the height of the anti-racism protests following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the idea of reparations for Black Americans for the long shadow of slavery gained traction. State and ...