ADCRC Chair Marvin Slaughter Jr. claims slave labor contributed "7 quadrillion dollars" to the U.S. at a reparations panel at ...

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

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 ...

The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This engraving shows the 1619 arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale in Jamestown, Virginia. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — After more than three years of research, Fulton County is approaching a historic decision: whether to offer reparations to Black residents. Fulton County is taking into ...

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

There are 1.2 million Black people in New Jersey, which makes up about 15% of the state's population. The New Jersey Legislature has yet to pass the bill introduced in 2019 for the formation of a ...

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

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly on March 25 adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a ...